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Word: inferiorated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Davis apparently misunderstood TIME'S reference to the Bonhomme Richard, which was merely one example of how an inferior force can sometimes beat a superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe faced its first really tough test. German pilots learned at Dunkirk, where R. A. F. definitely established local control, that they and their machines were individually inferior to the British. But the British had not enough planes to maintain superiority all over Britain if the Germans came over in thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Invasion Delayed | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...working document, defense of the Panama Canal was a textbook subject. The only possible attack was from Japan in the Pacific, and Japan's No. 3 world Navy had to operate from too far away. Its long supply lines could be cut at will, even by an inferior Navy, from the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and, if the Japanese got past the great ocean fortress of Hawaii, by flanking attacks from the U. S. Pacific Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic rule which Navy minds have to ponder. By such rules, John Paul Jones in his inferior Bon Homme Richard could not possibly have whipped England's Serapis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance to the Atlantic? | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...News that unscrupulous Belgian contractors had built the fort of inferior materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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