Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descendants of American-born grandparents stood about half as well in their studies as descendants of foreign-born grandparents. Also, ". . . the sons of fairly well educated parents are not doing so well . . . not half so well, as the sons of relatively uneducated parents." Moreover, "the faces of the inferior students look more typically 'American' than the others...
...Poor Nut (Jack Mulhall). Parts of J. C. & Elliott Nugent's play made into an inferior cinema tell a story about the despised college grind who turned himself into a revered athlete when one of the campus belles tinkled near his heart...
...work and believed that true friendship would result from mutual understanding issuing from frank discussion. Then Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,* President of Stanford University and chairman of the Institute, predicted that the U. S. would realize that though people of other races are different they are not inferior, and predicted that the quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace...
...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
...Author will technically be come a member of the older generation when she reaches her 30th birthday next year. At that time she will be able to remember seven books written, of which four-The Pot Boils, The Pitiful Wife, Three Kingdoms and now, The Lovely Ship are inferior to little that the last decade has produced. She would be justified in feeling that her education in London University, her journalistic and advertising preliminaries, have molded talent to a secure success...