Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nineteenth century China knew little of the western world and cared less. Chinese education took account only of Chinese literature, ethics, history and art and of such sciences as had long been known in the Far East. To the Chinese, surrounded as they were by nations inferior in civilization, their world was the whole world. Westerners then regarded this Chinese provincial complacency with annoyance or amused condescension, and patronizingly applauded the recent Japanese effort to acquire western knowledge. But bitter experience, culminating in the incursions of foreign powers at the end of the century, turned the attention of the Chinese...
...liberal arts, we are told, are luxuries. At best you should fit them into your leisure time. They are mere decorations upon the sterner pattern of life. . . . Men and women who are devoting their lives to such studies should not be made to feel inferior or apologetic in the face of a PT boat commander or the driver of a tank. They and all their fellow citizens should know that the preservation of our cultural heritage is not superfluous in a modern civilization. ... It is what we are fighting...
...Seagoing air power . . . had accomplished what land-based air power had failed to do. ... The picture which then existed was that of a greatly superior enemy surface fleet, which included battleships, helpless to advance in the face of a greatly inferior surface fleet, without battleships, which still possessed some seagoing air power. (This should dispose of the statement that we must have battleships if the enemy has battleships...
...luxuries drop one by one from the menu, the customary practice of condemning the food at Harvard is becoming even more widespread. It begins to look as if braised beef will be almost a daily feature, with lamb saute as the principal feature. But, no matter how much more inferior the food has become and will become in future months, the student will have to take it and like...
...Seven Days' Battle, 1862. Here Robert E. Lee, with inferior forces, outmaneuvered McClellan and saved Richmond, the loss of which would have changed the whole course of the Civil War. Lee's casualties were on a Stalingrad scale...