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Word: inferior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rump," declares Mr. Dale, "doesn't mean 'a portion of the original whole.'" Turn to Funk and Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary": "rump ... 3) Figuratively, the last or poor end of anything; an inferior remnant, spec (R) the Rump Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard students. The Hemenway Gymnasium, the squash courts, both boathouses, and the Soldiers Field athletic facilities are all open Sunday afternoon. But since a corner of Jarvis Field lies within the charmed thousand-foot radius around a church the tennis enthusiast must cross the river to the crowded and inferior courts of Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAINT BOTOLPH BLUES | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

...that the game here is greatly inferior to the game played in Canada," said Giddens. "Never has one been so impressed with the quality of hockey that is played at Yale, at Dartmouth, and at Harvard as this winter. The hockey is swift, it is rugged, it is good, and yet--the hockey we are playing today is not so productive, not so interesting to watch, not so exciting to play, as it should be.... The over-defensive tactics applied by all college teams is giving the sport a passive interpretation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIDDENS DISCUSSES VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COLLEGE HOCKEY | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

...Inferior Planets", Professor Plaskett, Astronomy Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

People mostly remember Baron Hailsham as Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg (TIME, May 16, 1927). With the inferior title he made a great name for himself in the House of Commons as Attorney General; and for years Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin depended on Sir Douglas to carry the brunt of many a debate, silence hecklers, sit tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hogg's Wedding | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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