Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...color-blind in greater or lesser degree and for that reason ineligible for training as an Army Air Corps pilot or observer. Last week the Air Corps's School of Flight Medicine reported an interesting incident...
...landplane base. Near by at Barbados the British have a battleship anchorage, a small airdrome and a tiny dry dock (too small for destroyers). At France's Martinique there is a small naval and submarine base, a destroyer dry dock. But of first-class base facilities the Lesser Antilles have none. And it is in this section of the hook that an invader reaching for the Canal would almost inevitably make his strongest effort. Between its islands are scores of deep passages, in its coves thousands of spots from which destroyers, cruisers and patrol bombers could operate as soon...
...written by Poet Archibald MacLeish, the new order will decorate "all stuffed shirts, politicians or others, who prove themselves friends of Adolf Hitler ... by hampering and slowing up the national defense of the U. S.'' Highest decoration: "the American Razzberry Rampant upon a Nazi Swastika Couchant." Lesser: "the Crooked Double Cross...
...ordered to immobilize, by persuasion or force, the one remaining capital ship of France's Navy not already knocked out or taken over by Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting eight 15-inch guns and a bristling mass of lesser armament, lay somewhat ahead in the tropic darkness, inside a net-boom in the harbor of Dakar. Smaller French warships lay there, too, to protect her, and all were well warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander had been signaled and had refused surrender terms similar...
Something short of a masterpiece was Thunder Over Mexico, which Upton Sinclair and other backers got old Hollywood hand Sol Lesser to patch together from their cinematic mountain after Director Eisenstein quarreled with Sinclair and went huffing back to Russia (TIME, May 2, 1932). But U. S. radicals, who accused Sinclair and Lesser of sabotage, and other admirers of Director Eisenstein persisted in the belief that Critic Wilson was right. Their laments made the movie Eisenstein had originally projected as Viva Mexico the most celebrated incomplete work of art since Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The news that...