Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote in the New York...
Consensus on the first play of the Guild's 19th subscription season seemed to be that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...
Husky, snub-nosed, 19, she started to play golf seven years ago, got instruction from her father and Edward VIII's favorite professional, Archie Compston. Putting - the department of golf in which women are most noticeably inferior to men - is Pam's strong point. She practices it two hours daily, does it better than any other girl golfer in the world...
...under way last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 14), continucd last week. At Cambridge, without going into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that...
...Wigmore of Northwestern University's Law School: "The Mitchell report is the most important event in 100 years of Federal justice. But," added this great authority on the law of evidence, "it should have restated the rules of evidence. . . . The law of evidence in our Federal Courts ... is inferior to that of any of the 50 States and Territories-not only inferior but far inferior." Despite this weighty endorsement most A.B.A. delegates received the Mitchell report without comment...