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Word: lessers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he is the one everyone remembers, Stephen Collins Foster was not the only U.S. songwriter of the 19th Century. This week a lesser, yet gifted writer of old-time songs, dead for 75 years, was honored by having his most famed song broadcast by many a radio station. The songwriter: chin-whiskered Benjamin Russell Hanby of Ohio. The song: Darling Nelly Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Oldtimer Remembered | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...Society will fill Sanders Theatre at 8:15 this evening when the two organizations present their annual Cambridge concert, Director G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, has combined selections in the classical vein with a number of more modern choral pieces in a program composed mainly of lesser known concert works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Sings With Radcliffe In Concert | 3/12/1942 | See Source »

These were iron-hard facts for any Congressman to face. Yet they will be implacably implicit in all the lesser issues over which Congress will wrangle before it passes a tax law. Some issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Where's the Money Coming From? | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Twentieth Century-Fox's boon to the warbound tourist is Song of the Islands, a Technicolored musical which sets two of the studio's finest torso-bearers (Betty Grable & Victor Mature) down on one of the lesser Hawaiian islands, a curious place, half paradise, half fruit stand. There blonde Miss Grable, who is especially well organized for paradisal parts, doffs the sweater she has lived in at school on the U.S. mainland and resumes her role as the community's No. 1 lei girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...mediocre mat season, the mediocre wrestling teams of Harvard and Yale tussle this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building for the lesser honors in the Big Three, which Princeton has already cinched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Oppose Yale Teams Here, Close Meets Seen | 3/4/1942 | See Source »

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