Word: inferiorated
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...However considerable the results obtained by the Franco-American offensive, they seemed, nevertheless, 'inferior to what it was permissible to expect against an adversary assailed everywhere and resisting at certain points with only worn out, heterogeneous and hastily assembled troops...
...fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
...black headlines in New York City as another example of the kind of justice meted out to New Yorkers by the courts of Tammany Hall. Many a similar case had been ferreted out by busy little Isidor Jacob Kresel, able prosecutor for a judicial inquiry into Manhattan's inferior criminal courts (TIME, Dec. 29). The endless list of Tammany scandals assumed even greater poignancy when Prosecutor Kresel produced the record of one Mary Felder, accused by six witnesses of shoplifting, who was twice brought before Magistrate Silbermann, twice dismissed. Her lawyer was the magistrate's "great friend" Mark...
...have no fear of transferring power to India. I do not think for a moment that Indian cabinet ministers would be inferior to Englishmen. But I doubt very much the wisdom of India adopting the British constitutional system with its Cabinet form of government and House of Commons ... a system which even in this country depends for its success on the conditions of the 19th Century and which now, even for England, is arousing skepticism and misgiving as to its adequacy...
...teachers, uninteresting, unsympathetic with the problems of the new student, or too busy to give the student much attention. If the first-year student has come from a good preparatory school, he sometimes finds the quality of instruction outside of the lectures and a few of the smaller courses inferior to the instruction to which he has been accustomed. As a result, he oftentimes loses interest in doing good work, if not respect for scholarship...