Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia, but perhaps he doesn't want to cope with any more unpleasantness than is necessary at this time. . . . But how grotesque that a man of such magnificent qualities and achievements, and such a wealth of worldwide experience should become the Forgotten Man, while men often of lesser equipment, some of whom had served as his aides not so long ago, are given exalted posts...
...Navy saw the first Alaskan attack (June 3), in perspective, as the lesser prong of a double assault on the western rim of U.S. outposts. The greater prong was blunted against the air and sea defense of Midway...
...told of sighting the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz rounding North Cape, protected by three cruisers (possibly the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
...agonizing pains have been relieved in a number of cases by injections of testosterone propionate, a male sex hormone. So reported Dr. Leslie Hamm of Boston in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, in a review of his own work and that of Dr. Maurice Aaron Lesser...
Last year, on the hunch that testosterone propionate increases the flow of blood in the heart, Dr. Lesser injected minuscule amounts of the hormone into the muscles of 24 angina patients (including four women), whose ages ranged from 40 to 77. Injections were given every second to fifth day, depending on the number and severity of the attacks. After receiving from five to 25 injections, all the patients improved. Some had no attacks for as long as twelve months after their last injection. (The women did not do as well...