Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of events which would have filled the minds of college students of a generation age with worry and dismay. Within two successive Saturdays each of the so-called Big Three has suffered defeat on the football field at the hands of what that same generation would have considered inferior colleges...
Coal Strike. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, told the convention that the anthracite mine operators were mulcting the public by selling inferior grades of coal for more expensive grades, and that the public had been lulled into a false security. Said...
...from President Roosevelt, whom he served as naval aide from 1907 to 1909. But earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
...year. So little interest was felt in the sport, that only a handful of men attended the annual football meeting in Holden. The strong and heavy men of the college refused point blank to take the trouble even to try for the eleven. Under these circumstances the inferior physique of our eleven need excite but little surprise. Yet, after all, how striking a commentary on the miserable, apathic, athletic spirit of Harvard, the result of this year's work has been! While our rivals find difficulty in selecting a man to fill a vacant place owing to the large number...
...people who have read about the much-touted Park Avenue chimes may be aware that there is another carillon, made by the same English bell foundry, only slightly inferior in range of bells, in St. Stephen's Church, Cohasset, Mass. Kam Lefévere is carilloneur. For some two years he has given concerts of carillon music on Sunday afternoons when the weather is warm. In place of a worthy patriotic air, Mr. Lefévere has a way of ending with a fantasia by Benoit, a carillon arrangement of Schubert or Rubenstein or his own graceful "Preludium...