Search Details

Word: inferiorated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...rail lines from the south, the Black Sea area, had been cut off, and the Nazis were on their way. Again U.S. aid might be too little and too late. There remained Vladivostok-and that was a long, long way from Moscow (5,000 miles of inferior railroad and foul weather) or from wherever the Russian Army must be kept supplied and fighting. And U.S. aid thus far, in four months of fierce Russian resistance, had consisted of 200 to 300 bombers (some diverted from Britain), four tankers of oil to Vladivostok in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: There Will Always Be a Russia | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...telephone calls (via lackey holding portable phone) while lunching at Hollywood's Brown Derby is to acquire izzat. To work for a mere $1,000 a week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinenym | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Even if the United States had no harbor defenses, it would be impregnable to invasion. And this still would be true if our navy were inferior to that of an invading power. Land-based air power has made United States impregnable to a sea-borne invasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...held in prison here under, to say the least, unenviable conditions. At present I am in solitary confinement. The food is inferior. I have not been in the prison yard, in the open, since early July. No boons were allowed until lately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNIST EX-STUDENT HELD ON ELLIS ISLAND | 10/1/1941 | See Source »

Editorialized the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph: "It is not for the Catholic Church to impose an inferior status on the clergy of other denominations before the civil law or to penalize innocent parties because one of its own members has failed to respect the canon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mixed Marriage in Quebec | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 359 | 360 | 361 | 362 | 363 | 364 | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | 372 | 373 | 374 | 375 | 376 | 377 | 378 | 379 | Next