Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other, lesser U.S. possessions seemed to have been mislaid also. Where were the rubber tires? (see p. 15). Westbrook Pegler solemnly proposed death-the treatment for horse thieves in the Old West-for such U.S. curs as stole tires. Liberal journals thundered at Jesse Jones: "Where are our tin factories?" The Auto Workers Union thundered (in half-page advertisements) at "Mr. OPM." One thunderclap: "Where is the Reuther Plan?" Samuel Grafton, most belligerent columnar thunderer for the New Deal, thundered at the State Department (for protesting the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miqueloa): "Where Is Our Foreign Policy...
...bore names that circled the rim of Empire: Kelly & Walsh sold Britons their books, Whiteaway & Laidlaw sold them practically everything else. The white monolithic skyscraper of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank dominated the island's waterfront as it dominated Britain's Pacific Empire, looking down upon the lesser establishments of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield and Swire, other British merchants and entrepreneurs...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...
...carry the famous name of its maker Benjamin Randolph; they consoled themselves by saying the collection had cost too much, that Karolik had been taken in on prices even though he had top-notch material. Scholars were excited to find as many as a dozen pieces ascribed to the lesser-known Boston maker John Seymour, whose Satiny finishes and tricky inlay patterns made his furniture more elegant than that of most contemporaries...
...Today," says the Institute, "opportunities for resettlement are choked off. . . . In the last analysis [refugee] rehabilitation rests on Palestine and the U.S. and, to a lesser degree, on certain South American countries. . . . Other likely countries are either closed to newcomers, or apply their laws exclusively against the Jews, directly or indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals...