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Word: lesser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...special committee was also established to take care of University records in case of an emergency. Microfilming of the most important documents is already under way, and lesser papers may soon be photostated under the conservation program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Organizes Its Defenses To Meet Threat of A-Bomb Attack | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...peasants). At that time the Reds were still accepted in the Kuomintang (Nationalist) revolution, which Chiang Kai-shek had led up from the south to subjugate the warlords and unify the nation. A Red army had already been urged by Mao, then one of the Communist Party's lesser figures and often berated by his less realistic comrades as a starry-eyed opportunist dreaming of "romantic Soviet republics in the mountainous wilderness." The Stalin-Mao decision to form an army, was, in effect, an undeclared war on Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist regime. Chiang hit back hard, sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Paris | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Following Coolidge's action, only lesser rehearsals in Fogg will be billed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Cancels Actors' Dress Rehearsal Fee | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

...idea of the kind of war Russia would like to fight. The greatest defect is lack of mobility, especially at sea; Russia is still militarily landlocked and will probably have to stay that way unless it can add the industrial resources of Western Europe to its own. To a lesser degree, its armies are also tethered by the limitations of Russian industry. The U.S.S.R. could not support vast masses of infantry operating thousands of miles from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: How Strong Is Russia? | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...handsome thing when carefully applied, but the competitive field of Saturday dances is not the place for it. It blunts the initiative and drive of the House Dance Committees to work hard and plan well. The second reason for the merger is, simply that Dunster (and, to a lesser extent, Adams) needs subsidizing because of its smaller size and unfavorable location for visitors. However, Leverett is even smaller than Dunster, and visiting Yale men do not, on the whole, pick their House dances, like their shoe shine parlors, on the basis of central location. There should be as many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divided We Stand | 11/22/1950 | See Source »

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