Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were modern trends in education and modern trends in womanhood. In many a testy paragraph he inveighed against 1) the stupidity of school superintendents and pedagogs, who overtaxed their pupils' brains with useless study; 2) the brazen influence of women who demanded equal rights for an inferior sex. So copious and infuriated did Mr. See become that at length he composed a book, published it in 1928 with a bitter title: Schools. Sample thoughts...
...defeat, the fall of Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
...Armada. Old England's glory is landed to the skies in a not too provoking manner, and Queen Elizabeth is never spoken of as Good Queen Boss. Swords flash, ships burn, bolls ring, and the Ruler of the Wave triumphs again. Alexander Korda's film is billed as inferior to "There Goes My Girl," but such is not the case...
...Arthur W. Mitchell was out to end the iniquitous Jim Crow system, they crowed in their lead stories. But when newshawks talked to him in Washington they found out differently. His complaint, it seemed, was not with the South's segregation laws, but with the roads that provide inferior accommodations for segregated Negroes when the laws specify equal accommodations. Indeed, he said, he could find no fault with some of the roads that do business in the South...
Guernica, Rightist planes attacking Bilbao under General Emilio Mola were German Heinkel and Junkers bombers, proven inferior to the Russian planes called chato (snub-nosed) by the Loyalists. On the advice of German aviators and with the approval of Generalissimo Franco, General Mola ordered the stupidest move of his entire military career: a punitive air raid on Guernica, 12 miles northeast of Bilbao...