Word: lessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this to say in the CRIMSON's 75th Anniversary issue last term; "Nowhere else in the College is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed. . . . A man learns to write. . . . This is what enables editors to pass examinations and stay in College, and the value of the lessor does not always diminish in later years." The competition, which will last for ten weeks, is open to freshmen and first term sophomores...
...Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...
...compared with the original NR, this appeal is great. The drawings and cartoons which are interspersed throughout the magazine; the addition of such well-known writers as Vincent Sheean and Teodore H. ("Thunder Out of China") White; the more striking cover--all should serve to increase its popularity. Lessor-known, but highly competent journalists, including UN news-covering Jane Bedell and a former Newsweek editor Thomas Whiteside, have been added as assistant editors...
Whenever a big man has been succeeded by a lessor one, he pointed out, the power of the legislature has grown immeasurably. "With the Congress so evenly balanced and with many of the Southern Democrats on the right side of the House and Senate," Professor Friedrich added, "such a trend becomes even more likely...
...York Central reported last year's net profit at $49 million, or nearly six times as much as the road earned during the entire decade of 1932-41. It reduced its 1941 debt of $969 million (including lessor companies) by $51 million, bringing total retirements for the decade to $191 million...