Word: inferiorated
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That the world is demoralized he thinks not altogether a bad sign. "Our epoch . . . believes itself more than all the rest, and at the same time feels that it is a beginning. What expression shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself...
...instruments)-all concentrating on the low-price field. In addition, a large number of independent companies have mushroomed throughout the land, usually buying and assembling the parts. Refrigerator men who have grown up with the industry say that these newcomers are spoiling the market, in many cases foisting off inferior products which give all mechanical refrigerators a bad name...
...night, tending colic, meeting in a city flat the little savages' requirements of safe outdoor activity and companionship, stewing soups and milks, acting as household drudges, and either abstaining from the life of the outer world entirely or else staggering under the double burden of a very inferior position outside and work in the home as well...
Tung oil (also called "wood oil") is used, in addition to paints and varnishes, for insulation and for waterproofing. The U. S. oil is selling at about 10? per Ib. against 6? for imported oil. The imported oil is of inferior quality, generally adulterated with soy bean oil. Two years ago the price of imported oil was 14-15?. There are only 3,500 acres in the U. S. in production now. When the 25,000 acres now planted are in full bearing they should yield 50,000,000 Ib. against normal imports of twice that much...
Maine lobstermen say other U. S. lobsters are inferior to theirs. Maine lobsters are sturdy, cannibalistic, pugnacious. They will stand on their hind claws, lift their fore claws and strike out like boxers. They molt three or four times a year. After a young lobster has cast its shell it turns around and eats it. After some 23 molts the shell is tough, the lobster considers himself a man and goes off in search of a batch of eggs to fertilize. In the winter lobsters live in mud at the bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore...