Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumni who believe that they can best promote the welfare of their alma mater by deriding her opponents. The greatness of Harvard and Princeton is predicated upon their contribution to the nation's economic, civic and intellectual life. In comparison with many colleges Princeton and Harvard have woefully inferior football teams. Eliot and Wilson have enhanced the prestige of Harvard and Princeton more than the sum total of football and baseball victories put together. This is not a new observation, most Harvard and Princeton undergraduates realize it. Harvard and Princeton together have been among the leaders in the country...
...China does not want to start a war. If others want war with us just let them start it. In the end we will win, for China is weary of being treated as an inferior nation." Since this version of the affair differs completely from Occidental news despatches (TIME, Sept. 20) representing the Chinese as having been the aggressors at Wanhsien, Mr. Chu's charges roused the British representative, Lord Cecil, to empurpled fury...
Prom the Rev. Dr. Turner's Nineteen Years in Polynesia we learn that "Hands are the choice bits-sacred to the priests," and that the flesh of white men was considered inferior to that of black, being of too salty a taste...
...Insensibly, standards of perfection have lowered in Europe through prolonged listening to inferior musicmaking. I have heard present-day cognoscenti in Europe enthuse over performances which would not be tolerated in New York...
...eleven wins to his credit. It is, of course, unfair to gauge pitchers on a Won-Lost basis, for consistently winning pitchers are not necessarily the best pitchers, since they may fortunately be hurling for a heavy-hitting team whereas an excellent pitcher may lack support from his inferior team. However, Pennock and Shocker (also of the Yankees), and Rhem and Meadows (Pittsburgh) have demonstrated sterling capabilities. The famed and aged Walter Johnson of Washington has skidded woefully, as has once great Dazzy Vance of Brooklyn...