Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether major damage to industrial targets had been done was a matter of lesser importance. The big thing was that now the Jap knew, as London and Chungking knew, that the war was at home. And unlike the Chinese and the British, people of Japan were apparently unprepared for the discovery...
...somewhat lesser interest is Georgie Auld's presence at the Jubilee. This band is rather new, and while it may not be as well integrated as Kirk's auld's tenor sax solos have been good listening and should make up most of the difference. It played here some weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive...
Madeleine is a British spy trying to smuggle a brooch-full of vital statistics from New York City to Los Angeles. Hope is the lesser half of a three-a-day penguin roller-skating act. They meet when Madeleine chooses his dressing room for a hideout from pursuing Nazis. They get out for Hollywood together by Pullman after she has bussed him once and Percy, the penguin, has been signed for pictures...
That it is one of the few sports that can help the nation directly and immediately has been stated by Pres. Roosevelt and lesser government officials. The chief executive's office recently wrote to Commodore Howard A. Finch of the Interlake Yachting Association that "the continuation of yachting is encouraged by the Navy department, and many young men with yachting experience have joined the Navy and have there demonstrated the value of their previous training...
...President Vargas is to forbid all foreign-language broadcasts in Brazil and to put an end to the use by Brazilian stations of all Axis news services. One of his worries has been clandestine radio communication between Axis agents on the Brazilian coast and German submarines at sea. A lesser worry has been short-wave propaganda from Berlin- telling Brazilians they are being taken into a war that is already lost...