Word: inferiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies that Vichy had set aside for Church-run schools. But still, one in five French children attended the church schools, though the buildings were often in miserable shape, and learning, except for the top Jesuit schools, suffered from ill-paid and inferior teaching. The question of state aid to Catholic schools has passionately dogged every French government since, including De Gaulle's Fifth Republic. Last week, when the government finally sent to the National Assembly a draft bill offering conditional aid to parochial schools, the guerre scolaire-and not the guerre...
...they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller piece before they wrapped the package...
...handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with a characteristic ultimatum. State organizations that do not pay up the joint $1,370,000 they owe in overdue quotas for 1957-59, he promised, will be paid off by inferior seating and housing arrangements at the Los Angeles convention next July...
Predictive tables for adult offenders also suggest that inferior intelligence, poor work habits, and small families are also likely to be characteristic of consistent trouble-makers in prison...
...that is breaking down the barrier between classics and jazz, will not hop up a piece of serious music. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. "It destroys the fire of jazz-which should be hot-blooded and swing hard-and it makes inferior classical music." Byrd keeps the forms divorced, plays one, then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week, and Byrd's popularity is so great that...