Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of the Lampoon (and have a care you don't get inferior brand with the "New Yorker" lables) is almost entirely the result of the energies of four contributors, Hichborn, the present Ibis, Blackburn, Batchelder, and the bilingual, and ambidexterous Mr. Churchill who serves the ridiculous in two disseparate fields, as an editor of the CRIMSON and as continuous contributor to Lampy's columns...
Paul Poiret, famed Parisian couturier, declared last week that he will transfer his business domicile from Paris to Manhattan, next October. He will do business in a Park Avenue apartment, as unshop-like as possible. The sensation caused by this announcement was inferior only to that stirred some months ago, when M. Poiret appeared for the first time since boyhood with his face denuded of the dark, fascinating beard which every woman knew...
...once did, to the expression of our more serious and fundamental ideas; in this respect it cannot rival the drama or the written word. At the same time it is felt that mere naturalism--the exact description of objects--may well be left to the photographer or the inferior painter who is entirely concerned with making things "like"--anyone can do it by studying the laws of perspective and by a little practice...
...detectives were of "markedly inferior mentality...
...root of the difficulty lies in the relationship between the secondary schools and the colleges. Our students come to college 'prepared', but with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means...