Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven-day wonder, the convention in the old Madison Square Garden where McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will soon adorn the Capitol's hall of fame, sent his ready-made platform and took Burton K. Wheeler for his running mate...
...erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence. The inevitable result would be that when released from this turkish bath of learning they would lack the practicability to apply their knowledge to actuality...
...Hydrolysis and the lesser members of the sulphur family", Professor Lamb, Mallinckrodt large lecture room...
...years the Metropolitan Opera Com pany has talked of a new opera house. So, but for a lesser time, has the Chicago Civic Opera Company. In Manhattan, however, Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Metropolitan directors was thwarted in his choice of site, whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been...
They plan to proceed to Haiti, San Domingo. Porto Rica, then south through the West Indies to Trinidad where they will visit the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture. From there their course will be west through the Dutch Lesser Antilles to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama. They will stop in the Panama Canal Zone for Professor Barbour's annual inspection of the Barro Colorado Island Tropical Research Station of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, of which Mr. Barbour is Chairman...