Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than a month of taciturn struggle at the Hotel Manhattan Square, Manhattan, served to prove U. S. chess brains are currently inferior to foreign. First prize ($2,000) in the International Chess Masters' Tournament was awarded to Jose R. Capablanca, Havana; second ($1,500) to Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Paris; third ($1,000) to Aron Nimzowitch, Copenhagen. Frank J. Marshall, New York, lone U. S. entry, had continuous difficulty with his cerebellum; finished last among the careful movers...
...favorite occupations, however, are fishing and hunting in both of which he is adapt. Although Mikkola likes America immensely, in this respect he maintains that it is vastly inferior to Finland. But he is willing to forego the pleasures of fishing and hunting for the other advantages which this country offers and intends to remain here in the future...
...wrote the doctor, in effect, "my cigars are terrible and I blow the smoke in my opponent's face, why do my opponents never object at the time of blowing? Furthermore, if my cigars were of inferior quality, they would destroy the subtle, inimitable fabric of my own game. Those who have seen me play and watched the smoke curve will bear witness that it curves away from rather than toward my opponent." He went...
...appreciation of its beauty has lived and died in happy ignorance of even the rudimentary principles of that science. It is high time that it was recognized, primarily at Harvard and in America at large, that the two types of men exist, that the teacher is not necessarily an inferior scholar to the research worker, that the two are rarely combined, and that both are needed in any liberal and well balanced system of education...
Marvels. The ancient Hindu civilization which gave way to Islam in the 15th Century left behind it a wealth of temples and antiquities scarcely inferior in interest to any similar remains whatever. Though the great Boro-Budur in central Java is inferior to the Pyramid of Cheops in size it is an architectural chef-d'oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible...