Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although our career then was full of hard traveling," she went out, as the reporter nodded his sympathy and thought uncomplimentary things about anyone who would make Merilyn work so hard, and life spent at inferior hotels, my mother insisted upon strict obedience to the routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their...
...basketball outlook is not as dark as anticipated. A dearth of substitutes is the worst problem Coach Wachter has to solve. The second team to date has shown itself noticeably inferior to the first string combination...
...them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams to Bill Roper, it explains why Princeton has that habit...
...moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...
...When the plan to limit training periods was first produced. I was in favor of it. But I have since seen that the practice of the plan is inferior to the theory, and that the increase in injuries and other evils attendant upon its continuance argue its abandonment. The integrity of the present training system defeats the very purpose of training...