Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They took to each other at first sight. She rented him a room in her apartment, but for a while their relations were purely platonic. When they became lovers they wanted to get married, but for six years her husband would not give her a divorce. Murry felt inferior to Katherine Mansfield, but he did not consider her a genius. (Once, though, he wrote her: "I know this, too, that you and I are geniuses.") Only two real geniuses he has ever met, he says, were Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and D. H. Lawrence. Gaudier was for a time...
...farm turn out to be uneducable. The shepherds begin their training as soon as they are full-grown, are useful through a life span of ten years. Most breeders believe that bitches are steadier and more intelligent than dogs. The "Seeing Eye" has not found males markedly inferior to females, uses about three bitches to two dogs. "Seeing Eye" dogs do not, as many people suppose, memorize the blind man's route. The blind man must know his own route. The dog's function is to use his eyes, warn his master when the route is impassable...
Against a Columbia crew that is its inferior on paper and a Tech crew that has already lost its shirts to Harvard, the Varsity eight will take the water tomorrow in the Basin at 5:30 o'clock with a good chance of victory...
...shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed, had not been proved against Judge Ritter. Democratic Senator George of Georgia pointed to another sentence in the Constitution: "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior. . . ." If Senators believed Judge Ritter guilty of misbehavior, regardless of high crimes and misdemeanors, it was, declared Georgia's George, their duty to convict...
Egloff: Alcohol-gasoline is a distinctly inferior motor fuel in performance, consumption and upkeep of motor. Difficult starting, slow acceleration,'over-heating of engines, and rougher driving can be expected...