Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little like his subject: "In fact he was a complex one." The marquess, mad at Wilde and the world, threw out insults that practically begged for a libel suit. Wilde unwisely started one, lost and as a result was tried for sodomy and indecent behavior; convicted of the lesser charge, he served two years at hard labor...
Some shoppers will be startled by Sweet's roster: it fails to mention Bloomingdale's or Neiman-Marcus but includes such lesser knowns as Maas Bros. in Florida and Razook's in Connecticut...
...feuding erupted over portions of a 30-page document released by the nation's bishops that seemed at least to tolerate such instruction as a lesser evil. The hierarchy's 50-member administrative board argued that public education should stress the traditional Christian virtue of abstinence from sex apart from marriage, along with avoidance of intravenous drug use, as the best and morally correct method of containing the AIDS epidemic. But, it acknowledged, in a pluralistic society some people will simply not accept such strictures. Thus, said the bishops, accurate information about prophylactic devices "as a potential means of preventing...
Andrew P. Goldfarb '89, Lori E. Lesser '88, Eric M. Mindich '88 and Brenda J. Walker '88 of Harvard last month joined 200 other participants at the 13th annual "Business Tomorrow Conference" conference in Chicago. The four were chosen from a pool of 2000 applicants to represent Harvard at the conference, which was sponsored by Princeton's Foundation for Student Communicaion...
...will be alternative cinema which is just as well," Edison said. "We couldn't fit the crowds that would come for blockbusters in such a small space. We may do Hitchcock later on, but lesser known ones...