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Word: inferiorated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to the soloists, I think it's extremely unfair to call their music inferior to the work they did before 1931. I can enjoy Benny Carter's present-day work just as much as the stuff he played with the Chocolate Dandles; and Muggsy Spanier with his own outfit gives me as many kicks as Muggsy Spanier with the Mound City Blue Blowers...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...London Naval Conference, Britain's new battleships are armed with ten 14-in. guns in one two-gun and two four-gun turrets. They shoot 1,560-lb. shells, claim to have greater range and hitting power than earlier British 15-inchers, to be only slightly inferior to foreign 16-inchers. Their speed is over 30 knots, seven more than that of the Nelson and Rodney, completed in 1927 and hitherto Britain's most modern capital ships. Of their displacement weight, 40% is in armor, which is 16 inches thick at the water line, and they are equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Dead Ships, Baby Ships | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...answers to the two key Near East questions. On No. 1 she reported flatly: "The Pan-Arab movement has, for the present at least, given way to a desire to see the Allies win the war. The Arabs understand only too well that the Nazis consider the Semites an inferior race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: How Goes Turkey? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...than it for one reason: it has more life and push. It's the old story of a bad colored band usually being better than a good white one when it comes to playing that thing called swing. No matter how out of tune they may be, or how inferior their phrasing, the colored boys have an inate relaxation that while bands can rehearse for twenty years and never...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

...Barnes is brusque but no booby. He compared Pippin's work to that of the most famed U. S. primitive painter, the late John Kane. Said he: "Kane is more romantic in spirit . . . but his work is less rugged, simple, picturesque and naïve, and is inferior to Pippin's in variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitivist Pippin | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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