Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northbound, the sailing vessels will nibble away at the 4,000,000 tons of sugar awaiting shipment in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the 330,000 tons of Colombian and Central American coffee normally imported each year by the U.S. At transfer terminals in the Lesser Antilles they may even pick up cargoes brought by convoy from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, cutting the convoy voyage by as much as half...
...British officialdom tends to think of a second front in terms of an all-out, huge-scale offensive requiring forces comparable to those of the main German armies. But the immediate purpose of the second front-diversion from the Russian front-could be accomplished with a lesser effort, involving no more than 500,000 men. A bridgehead diversion, provided Britain can hold control of the air, might be enough to compel a major Nazi effort to head it off. Once established, the bridgehead could be used by more massive forces. Even if there were defeat-even another Dunkirk-the effort...
...about time. The U.S. Army could not ignore the fact that the Japanese had started a new campaign to crush China. It is a campaign which has far better chance of success than the lesser drives of the past five years-not only because of the fall of Burma but also because of all the Far Eastern catastrophes since...
...spent most of yesterday afternoon at the Buckminster Hotel near Fenway Park listening to some of the really worthy jazz improvisers strutting their wares before an informal and appreciative crowd. There was Sandy Williams, one of the lesser known but very individual Negro trombonists; there were some fairly fair local boys, each of whom at times had some interesting things to say on their little instruments; and there were Max Kaminsky, the stubby trumpet player who is right in his element in front of a small band, and semi-legendary Peewee Russell, who painfully extorted a half-hour's worth...
Unfortunately, the exact same statement applies to the Crimson, only to a lesser degree, so that tomorrow's match promises to be a battle royal between players who may well tend to blow up if a few bad breaks come their...