Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifelong habit of recycling poses and motifs, patching them in. Thus he can be very deceptive: the image that seems the freshest product of observation turns out to have been used half a dozen times before. Degas copied everything from Mantegna to Mogul miniatures, and even the work of lesser painters than himself; an artist, he said, should not be allowed to draw so much as a radish without the constant habit of copying the Old Masters...
...didn't want to beat a lesser opponent," McElreavy said. "We wanted to beat a good football team. And Princeton is a good football team. Princeton is still capable of winning the Ivy League championship...
...fourth quarter, Yohe pump faked the entire UMass defense and found Hinz for the final score of the game. A lesser quarterback might not have been able to mount a comeback so quickly with his team down by 24 points...
...foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take the EEOC "seriously." The lease may just send the wrong signal to Congress, which is considering legislation to encourage agencies to move to the less expensive suburbs...
...every event, there is a favorite. But it is one thing to have the odds point your way and another thing entirely to bestride a sport. Here is a selection of athletes who collect world records the way lesser competitors notch victories. They may have rivals to watch out for, but they have no one to look up to. They are the rulers of the field...