Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against Coach Klevenow's eleven Yale will put a leaderless team, for Captain John Joss is out of the game with sinus trouble. However, the Elis are sure to be strong in the line, with Sturhahn, Root, Richards and Butterworth back in uniform. Yale's wingmen appear inferior to Middlebury's, as Coach Jones feels the loss of Bingham and Luman, last year's regulars...
...estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte, Ind. He turned in the name, "Edithton Beach," received...
...materials of education are facts, ideas, and ideals. Its tools are two minds: one superior, the other inferior, one to impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, bequeathed to the Cornell Brain Association to prove her life-long contention that the brain of a woman is not inherently inferior to that...
...many years U. S. steel makers have largely disregarded their waste products. Meanwhile German steel manufacturers have largely compensated themselves for their inferior supplies of raw materials and their smaller ordinary output, by utilizing to the limit all waste products of steel making. Now U. S. companies are following suit in a manner resembling that followed by Chicago packers with meat products years...