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Word: lessers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What has happened is that men with the greatest talents in the field of journalism have been drawn from lesser cities to the papers and magazines of New York and similar large centers. In the first two years of the experiment, five men from the South and Middle-West have moved by way of Nieman Fellowships to positions on one or another of the New York dailies. A sixth garnered a job with Newsweek, second largest newsmagazine of the nation, and still another moved from the West to New York within the fold of the Associated Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIEMAN NEMESIS | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

...Lesser managerships were awarded to George V. B. H. Day '43, of Adams House and Springfield, and Rufus F. Walker '43, of Claverly Hall and Brookline, who will be Junior Varsity and Varsity managers respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Place Chosen Football Manager For 1943 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Impossible Accident | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: Plastic Fords | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Question in many an independent exhibitor's mind was why Arnold had proved so lenient, failed to insist on his threatened divorce. Official explanation: the divorce threat was merely a means to a lesser end-the end of block booking. The Big Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Consent Decree | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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