Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superior CRIMSON aggregation overwhelmed an inferior Lampoon aggregation in Saturday's annual Crime-Lampy baseball game on Soldiers Field. Despite firm opposition by the 'Poonsters in the opening inning, the capable Plympton Street aggregation, its loins girded, soon hit its stride and overwhelmed the cock-eyed Bow Street aggregation by a score...
From superiority in quantity and quality, Hitler grew progressively inferior in both. With V1, V-2 and jet-propelled planes he made a desperate effort to recover the advantage of weapons. But it was too late...
When "prewar" goods in wholesale markets gave way to strange and often inferior substitutes, buyers shied competitors away from the new goods: but Gimbel sent his buyers out to place whopping orders. Bernard Gimbel was playing another hunch based on a sound merchandising theory: so long as people had plenty of money to spend they might not be too choosy about what they could buy. Also he kept a sharp eye out for Army & Navy surpluses, figured out civilian uses for them. When a Gimbel buyer heard of a stock of 100,000 Army-rejected small parachutes used to drop...
...Keating made his biggest splash in the report of his talk before the Cincinnati Businessmen's League. Said Keating: "Agencies are doomed unless they establish totalitarian principles . . . with clients. Businessmen should keep their fingers out of advertising. Many agencies are producing inferior advertising, against their better judgment, for fear of losing lucrative accounts and because account executives 'butter-up' the client...
...many, this seemed much inferior procedure to Soviet Russia's efforts to, convert captured German soldiers. Unhampered by the rules of the Geneva Convention, and with interests vastly different from those of the U.S., Russia has set up two effective and functional organizations among its German prisoners (TIME, Oct. 30). One is political and educates Germans to the merits of Communism; the other provides a cadre of Russia-lovers for the future German officers corps. Many an influential and respected German officer, facing the prospect of Russian domination, has accepted the Soviet offer in the hope of postwar influence...