Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They read it here, they read it there, those Bolshies read it everywhere. "It" is Tarzan. Six books* of Tarzan adventures, in cheap paper editions costing 60?, have been printed to the number of 250,000. "Yet," said a Moscow publisher, "the supply is far inferior to the demand. We could easily sell a million." A Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining...
Aside from some criticism based on suspicion of academic institutions, the Government's move is approved by the Oxford-Tory tradition. The foundation of Toryism was "the land." When "trade" relegated "land" to an inferior position, Toryism lost hold. If Oxford can help to bring back the relative value of land, it will be a boon to Toryism as well as to individual farmers...
...continued in excellent English, "I am glad we are to play one of the best teams, for there is no practice as good as to play against a better player than yourself. We purposely challenged outside of our own zone. The neighboring teams are all very inferior and although we might advance further in the tournament by playing them we would lose the sport of playing men like the Australians...
This storm in the session was aroused by the oil graft scandal (TiME, March 3), which was itself engendered by the sale of inferior benzine and gasoline to the Government at superior price...
...paintings of some of our modern leading artists," he said, "may not last more than 50 years because of the use of inferior canvas or pigments. Many of the old masterpieces recently imported to this country are in danger, now, of destruction as the result of improper care...