Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the 500-mile-long front, from the Dnieper's mouth to the Carpathians, four Red Armies hacked their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
...undosed rats with the same fathers. Result: when a mother rat got a dose of one milliampere from the cathode (negative pole), the odds were 383-to-1 that her litter would be superior in intelligence; a dose of two milliamperes had the opposite effect-the litter was inferior (61-to-1). Doses from the anode (positive pole) seemed to have less effect-two milliamperes produced somewhat inferior litters, one milliampere made no visible difference...
...That Jews and Negroes are inferior races...
...Mexicans" signs can be found in other border states. But big, bumptious Texas is the most assertive in maintaining the doctrine that anyone with a dark skin, however cultivated, industrious and well-behaved, is forever inferior to any light-skinned person. (Mexicans have practically no Negro blood; most of them are part or full-blooded Indians.) There are about a million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated...
...Race prejudice ... a determination to keep a people down . . . misuses the label 'inferior' to justify unfairness and injustice. . . . One hundred thousand Americans have petitioned the War Department to have at least one division in the Army containing both Negroes and whites. . . . The United States should clean its own house . . . stand unashamed before the Nazis and condemn, without confusion, their doctrines of a Master Race...