Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great battle of Aug. 26-31, 1914, in which Hindenburg, with an inferior force, virtually annihilated the Russian army of the Narew...
...individual, is now of schoolboy age and character. In his football playing, fighting, friendships, difficulties, he is no longer so engrossing, no longer individual. Here and there Author Walpole makes an opportunity to show his accustomed insight; always he manages with complete mastery a theme that many an inferior novelist has fumbled. But though his book is better than the run of schoolboy novels, it never quite loses the taint of sugary superficiality that has lingered in all such works since Eric, or Little by Little...
...here opening up in both theory and business life. After more than a century devoted to the elaboration . . . and the technique of banking and commercial credit, designed to fit the industrial revolution, we now stand on the brink of another revolution in economic science and economic life, scarcely inferior to its predecessor. If I have succeeded in laying the foundations for a structure devoted to appraising the real meaning of this revolution, I shall be well content to see the stately edifice of the future built up by more skillful hands...
Unlike his famed grandsire, who (according to Emil Ludwig, famed Teuton biographer) until he was well past 30 was considered a "Taugenichts" (good-for-nothing), annoying his neighbors with his scandalous affairs with women, Prince Otto, if intellectually inferior, is a mild-mannered, well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...