Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of impressing Italy and lesser neutrals, as much prestige could be lost as gained if the gamble did not win quickly, brilliantly. If the gamble lost, with it might go all Swedish iron ore, all neutral prestige, perhaps the whole...
...burden of proof lies with these lesser groups. Right now they are not doing as good a job of stirring up peace sentiment in the College as the H.S.U. If they think they can help, that the cause of peace would benefit by their support, then their contentious accusations are a stupid way of showing it. They complain that having a C.I.O. man speak for a meeting sponsored in part by the H.S.U. means the sacrificing of peace to politics. Strangely, it is Norman Thomas, their own headliner, who is doing just that. Mr. Quill is willing to speak together...
...another way. In mid-season last year two pitchers met in a minor league game down in Beaumont, Texas. Their names were P. Dean and L. T. Rowe. Both were knocked out of the box. Five short years ago in the major leagues the lesser half of the great team of Me-and-Paul had pitched a no-hitter, and the acclaimed American "Schoolboy" had wrung up his unbeaten string of seventeen straight. Rowe is this year trying to come back, but Paul is done. Dizzy has joined Paul, to all intents and purposes. Hubbell, true, shows signs...
...swing artist's swing artist; bounding Burt Wheeler is a Senator's Senator. Forged in the furnace of Montana politics, in the long fight with Montana's absentee owners, tempered by blows in & out of the Senate that would have long since destroyed anyone of lesser steel, polished by the saving grace of a swift mind that has dwelt long on the ironies of politics-Burt Wheeler has lived a half-dozen lives, every one at top speed, except for brief intervals of catnapping on his office couch. "Nearly everything, except perhaps dinner, seems less important after...
...sponsor, big Radio Corp. of America, was last February's leap-year day. On the 20th of February, after seven days of public hearings on the technique and possibilities of television and a month's deliberation, the Federal Communications Commission gave RCA and lesser telecasters a history-making go-ahead...