Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors of this volume- there are two of them-declared that Lord Randolph "rose to the top of the tree by liberal use of insolence"; that "from the viewpoint of ability, character and brains Randolph was quite of the ordinary class, vastly inferior to his brother and without the genius, high courage and splendid patriotism of his son Winston. His notoriety was obtained by one endowment only-insolence, of the heavy 'made-in-Germany' kind." Churchill senior was viewed as a man who evinced "nothing but the increasing desire to eat, drink and sleep a great deal...
...this year which provides : ". . . that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy Bible or that ours is an inferior form of government...
...Cippico, speaking a la Fascismo, declared that war was a "cruel necessity." "Each nation," said he, "has to defend its own right to exist, to remedy the defects of its geographical, political or economic situation in the world, to make good its own individual civilization as opposed to the inferior civilizations of other peoples...
...Ireland now has a stable Government, statistics are being kept and, before long, we will be able to make accurate reports concerning our imports and exports. In the meantime, we intend to prevent merchants from calling inferior goods by an Irish name. This injures us and restricts our market...
...foreign policy is essentially peaceful and, on the other hand, we must think of economizing. But there is a minimum of new building which we cannot go below. Our fleet is very inferior to the Italian fleet. Germany is authorized to own a fairly important fleet and is not limited as to new building. We must take account of this and also of the Russian fleet...