Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have heard it said that Arctic explorers are inferior men who would be lost in the civilized world...
...security, he signed an exclusive contract with Art Dealer Ambroise Vollard, agreeing to turn over all of the paintings in his studio for a mere $10,000. After Vollard's death in 1939, Rouault brought suit, recovered some 700 of his own canvases, burned 315 of them as inferior...
...capable, low-pressure General Nathan Farragut Twining, that the U.S. is behind Russia in long-range missiles and must "get on the move" to catch up. But "It is important that we realize, at home and abroad, that we are not-today-in my judgment, in a position of inferior military strength vis-á-vis the Soviet Union . . . Such a misapprehension could lead to fatal compromises in connection with disarmament negotiations and could lead to other retreats in the foreign policy fields-worldwide-which would eventually destroy our security...
...trouble with women, President Lynn Townsend White Jr. of California's little (625 girls) Mills College (at Oakland) once wrote, is that they cling to the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." And the trouble with women's colleges, he added, is that, in imitating the men's, they treat higher education as" "something like spinach, which can profitably be absorbed without reference to the gender of the absorbent." Since 1943, when he left his job as professor of history at Stanford to take over Mills College, chubby...
...that the new standards simply mark a return to the income requirements before World War II. Builders have long agitated for the change. Last March HOUSE & HOME ran an editorial calling FHA's income requirements "unreasonable and arbitrary," pointed out that FHA was encouraging consumers to buy inferior houses. As a result, FHA Commissioner Norman Mason appointed an industry advisory committee, whose recommendations led to the new standards...