Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill to permit the Department of Agriculture to dye all imported field seeds which it finds not adaptable to this country. The object of this bill is to exclude in effect large quantities of Italian clover seed. From experiment the Department of Agriculture believes that this seed is inferior for planting in the U. S. Dying would enable farmers to detect it. ¶The Ketcham Bill to authorize the Department of Agriculture to report market conditions on farm products, acreages, yields, conditions. This bill has passed the House and awaits action in the Senate. ¶The Copper-French Truth...
Coach Slattery leaves the University after five consecutive years of service. His first two teams defeated Yale, but, handicapped by inferior material, he has coached losing teams for the past three seasons. He is to direct the Boston College nine next season...
...Baron von Steuben's lessons were forgotten. Bungling began at once. When war was declared, Canada was politely informed of the fact, but our troops in the West were not - were attacked unawares. Political Generals bungled horribly and troops walked out or fled before inferior forces of the enemy...
...real friends and foes are. The party does not want lukewarm adherents who will cast it off. The new Directorate which the Council meets to elect must be strong and disciplined." Italy's wheat crop has failed. This was evidenced when Roman bakeries started to bake the inferior war bread - now called pane popolare and sold for 1 lira 20 centesimi per kilogram (6 cents). The price of white bread advanced to 2 lire per kilogram (10 cents), owing to the advancing price of wheat. A party of, men, said to be Fascisti, broke into St. Peter...
...rare thing for a Cathedral to be built in Britain. Immortal centuries have fled since the great days of Sir Christopher Wren, but, apparently, the art of Cathedral-building has not been lost. Liverpool Cathedral is the largest ecclesiastical building in Britain, being inferior only to St. Peter's at Rome, and Seville Cathedral in Spain. Moreover, it is said to be the finest example of Gothic architecture in the world, "as impressive as York Minster, as powerful as St. Paul's, as serene as Westminster...