Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...
...initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them thus, cryptically indicating that intellectually Yvonne is superior to all her sisters, Marie inferior, with Annette, Cecile and Emilie ranging between...
Ford. Henry Ford is not an A. M. A. member and would therefore (according to custom) get inferior space at the Automobile Show proper. This week his debutante was on view on upper Broadway with enough changes to startle all comers. For the first time since 1908 Ford is offering two models unlike in appearance and interior appointments. Last year's Fords came as the V-8 standard or de luxe, almost identical save in power. The new de luxe model looks like the 1938 Lincoln Zephyr (see below), has a hood that curves down over the grille...
...libertarianism and brought him his greatest contemporary success, he outlived his fame. Harassed by financial difficulties, weakened mentally in his last years, he died in 1852. A statue, raised to his memory by popular subscription in Dublin, turned out after its erection to have been cast in inferior metal, soon rusted ignobly in the Irish rains...
...first is that Mr. Roosevelt, however humanitarian his ideals, has proved that he lacks the ability to translate his ideas into sound legislation. When Mr. Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security...