Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, there are hundreds of thousands, yes, millions, of us in lesser places who hold the same ideals and are willing to fight for them, and who are literally itching for the opportunity to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world our ability and our determination to "produce the goods...
...Lawyer Arthur A. Ballantine, Armstrong Cork Co.'s President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., Chrysler Corp. Director Harold Elstner Talbott Jr., Southern Railway President Ernest E. Norris. In the industrial South, businessmen's private talk indicated that many an anti-New Deal Democrat would break ranks for Willkie. Lesser-known backers who typify the kind of businessman Willkie represents: Brother Herman Frederick Willkie, Louisville vice president of Distillers Corp.-Seagrams, a production man; Brother Robert Willkie, his assistant; Brother Edward E. Willkie of Chicago, vice president in charge of the salmon division of Libby, McNeil & Libby. All four Willkies...
...without a country is a sorry sight. An Emperor without an Empire is even sorrier, particularly if he renounced it for love, fun or other lesser considerations. Such a sight was pouch-eyed little Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, as he skipped from one asylum to another last week...
...Food and to spare for Britain, except for maize and, to a lesser extent, sugar...
...purpose of the conference, in which representatives of twenty-two New England colleges took part, was "to present clearly and specifically to students the career opportunities in some of the lesser known fields of work, especially those devoted to what may roughly be called community service...