Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remember the Maine" is distinctly inferior to Walter Millis's classic exposition, but such a statement does not imply complete condemnation of Mr. Mason's book. Mr. Mason has written in a pleasing, colorful style, and on one point he is even superior to Millis as a creator of atmospheric background for the United States' imperialistic adventure. He avoids the harsh, extreme one-sidedness of the earlier author, who in general seems to have felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana...
Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where one can see anything, learn anything, go anywhere, get almost anything done, she wastes no chance to compensate for long years of being (by her own account) a cloistered nobody...
Madrid had held out for two and a half years. But Madrid lies on a plain and behind a deep-cut river bed. Barcelona lies defenseless in a cup. Furthermore, when the Rebels tried to take Madrid in 1936 they were far inferior in numbers and not much better off in material than the defenders. And the defenders of Madrid were spirited militia, men like the "iron" regiment which snatched up its arms from the dead. The Republican Army that was forced back on Barcelona had been outnumbered and smashed for five weeks by the greatest concentration of war material...
Pointing out that to run its inferior schools Oklahoma City spends $429,000 a year more than Fort Worth, the Times sought to bestir citizens to long-overdue school reforms, cried: "It costs no more to raise a thoroughbred than it does to raise a scrub...
According to Butterfield the two Princeton professors, feeling secretly inferior, took refuge subconsciously in aphasia to remove their abulia. They tried to rid themselves of their inferior feeling and increase their inferior felling and increase their own ego by calling Princeton men, "Style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college, and socialite...