Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that added to these causes of congestion in the Bureau, there has been a shortage of the special paper stock used for government notes. Instead of 100 per cent linen paper formerly used, the Treasury has had to resort to cotton paper stock. Money printed on this inferior paper deteriorates rapidly in circulation, and when sent into Washington to be replaced cannot be successfully laundered and reissued as could be the higher grade linen paper...
...their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what one may call by contrast the world of thought, quite the opposite was the case. Pure science and the purely cultural subjects, such as classics and literature and art, are absolutely inferior in most cases, and usually neglected. The situation in regard to them is either tragic or comic. Accordingly, although one meets students who obviously show promise of becoming great engineers, great doctors, captains of industry and so forth, one rarely if ever meets a student who seems destined to become...
...means: that by the allotment of tonnage the American fleet would be stronger than either British or Japanese fleets in an action near our coasts (because of the distance of the latter from their bases) but this, in an action in European or Asiatic waters, our fleet would be inferior to either of the two because of the distance from U. S. bases...
Army, stated that all forces of the Red Army and Navy had been reduced from 610,000 to 562,000 men. These figures show that Russia has an Army and Navy numerically inferior to the Army alone of France, which amounts to 690,500 men (figure...
...pointed out that, because of stringent economy, our Army has now only 80% of the commissioned officers required for its peace strength; that it had become necessary to issue to enlisted men inferior equipment left over from the War; that the National Guard had grown beyond the limits set for it in current appropriations; that soon most of the veterans of the War would have reached such an age that we would be left without a reserve of citizens trained and with experience in the field. That some plan for building up a dependable reserve must be undertaken...