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Word: lessers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands of a lesser director than Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door) this theme might well have turned sour. By superb cinema artistry he raises it to the level of subtle, entertaining comedy without losing sight of its basic problem. That tour de force is a rare cinema triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...lesser degree, does George Price. He lives in an old 18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Martinique also lies in the very center of the chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles, which guard the Caribbean-halfway between U.S. bases on Puerto Rico and Trinidad on one of the direct routes from Europe to the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Minds on Martinique | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

FORTUNE'S appraisal is based on the assumption, unacceptable to isolationists, that the U.S. is already engaged in an inescapable struggle. Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Burton Wheeler, John L. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh and many a lesser citizen in their several ways question or deny that assumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time: The Present | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Jumping-Off Place | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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