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Word: lessers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Movie stars and lesser folk who dropped into Los Angeles' Brown Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because of the rise in wholesale costs. Begged La Rue's: "Stop eating steaks for awhile and bring these prices down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resistance, Please | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...SCHEDULE: Unless Harvard gets a stronger team, would you be for or against limiting Harvard's schedule to lesser-known teams that are equal in ability? except for Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton) For 51% Against 44% No answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results of Football Poll | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Pirandello is rarely performed in the country, but lesser-known works have been Brattle Hall tradition since its founding. Depending on the success of "Henry IV," the Brattle Players will go forward with plans for some of Shakespeare's lesser-known works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Company Opens 'Henry IV' | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Although all roads lead to New Haven (and, to lesser extent,) to New York, the Automobile Legal Association recommends but one safe and easy path...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easy to Travel to New Haven | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...fight won, Jacob promptly began trimming his liquor prices again. This time he had plenty of company. Chicago department stores, Goldblatt's and Wieboldt's, slashed 96? off fifths of such bonded bourbons as Old Crow, Old Forester and I. W. Harper (new price $5.79), made lesser cuts on blended whiskies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knockout | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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