Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tells the story of his own life frankly and revealingly, just as honestly and just as skilfully as if he had never existed outside his own fertile imagination. He writes his novels as if they were biography. Now he makes of his own life a novel no whit inferior to those which have won him the right to a hearing...
...possibility of taking first place from Syracuse is remote. Four of the Syracusans who were largely responsible for her 1923 victory are again entered today. Furthermore, Syracuse's fifth man will be of no inferior powers, for last year Syracuse had no difficulty in filling in the gaps of her 1922 nucleus, which remained from her first championship team. Coach Farrell picks Penn State as second only to Syracuse...
Since no tests have ever been made by a radio station transmitting from the top of the Stadium it is impossible at the present moment to determine the actual range the new apparatus will possess. It is expected, however, that results will not be inferior to those obtained at the old station, which was heard in almost every state of the Union and in Europe...
...country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than a muscle-making machine and as such they are far inferior to chestweights or dumbbells. William H. Ennis...
...American plan is one of mass education. But it seems that good students are born, not made, and that their number is limited by nature to a few. In every American university a small group of students stands out not inferior to the English college man. But these men do not feel an attraction which gathers them all within the walls of one or two institutions as in England. The mass, too, foreordained to get degrees without an education, do not leave college without cultural profit, and by this much the American system may be regarded as superior...