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Word: inferiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Skip Stahley's attempt to fashion a winning Freshman football team was rather a disappointment Saturday afternoon when an inferior Exeter team defeated the 1940 eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUMBLES DOWNFALL OF '41 ELEVEN IN OPENER | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...could scarcely have been the food here, for the Yale News quotes him as saying the fare in Connecticut is inferior except for the salad in which there are no steel shavings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE 1941 CLAIMS ONE OF HARVARD'S 1940 MEN | 10/7/1937 | See Source »

...second backfield shows Fred Jerome as quarterback, Austy Harding and Frank Foley the halfbacks, and Ralph Pope fullback. Jerome is hardly inferior to the similarly built Boston while Pope has been cracking the line in the early scrimmages with sufficient brilliance to win Harlow's praise...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: HARLOW DRIVES SQUAD THROUGH SECOND WEEK | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

Less astounding than it sounded, Senator Borah's contention was based on a fine definition. The U. S. Constitution provides that "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office." Because the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned and accepted a pension which in 1932 was cut in half as an economy measure, the Supreme Court Retirement Act was passed this year to give elderly justices a better reason for quitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Mad Hatter's Dialog | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Corra announced bitterly that her husband had tuberculosis and she could not leave him. Rex cut his leave short, took tfiie first boat leaving, an old freighter which was practically made to order for Submarines. When a U-boat showed up, Rex did the best he could with an inferior gun, finally made a direct hit-but a few seconds too late to stop the torpedo which blew the freighter sky high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submarine Fighter | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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