Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Oyster Bay and Chevy Chase were champing impatiently at Woodrow Wilson's "watchful waiting," the most popular sport of U. S. college boys and prep-school seniors was to join the Lafayette Escadrille or drive an ambulance for the Allies. Quentin Roosevelt flew a plane, and lesser hotbloods like Ernest Hemingway piloted Model T Fords. From more than 100 colleges and universities and nearly every State went 2,500 volunteers to work for American Field Service, serve on every front, retrieve half a million wounded in their bouncing little trucks, collect more than 250 medals...
last month, could scarcely expect such consideration as Wilhelm von Hohenzollern got. With Otto fled his dynamic mother, the former Empress Zita, five lesser Habsburgs...
Presumably the reasoning behind this drastic behavior was that : 1 ) Germany's smashing offensive portended a quick peace, which would abort the aircraft and lesser export booms, 2) a Germanized Europe and axified world would end all extra-hemispheric trade, close European markets to North & South American commodities. Another bearish factor was technical: margin calls. When the selling started, swarms of little fellows, others not so little, were forced to raise a few hundred dollars with which to keep their positions in war babies like North American Aviation (down 8⅞ points by Tuesday's close...
...purpose of the gathering will be to acquaint the intrepid trail-blazers-to-be with the hazards of the upstream passage so that the lesser men will be afforded an early opportunity to drop out. The remainder will be addressed by the Flag Officers on the ideal and purpose of the trip: to pioneer a maritime rapprochement between Harvard and Wellesley...
Once the sin of accepting any interest at all, usury is a lesser crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever...