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Word: inferiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team which wants victory as bad as the Redmen do is not to be disregarded --particularly in a game like football, where the strongest squad on paper loses so often to a supposedly inferior group which...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Favored Crimson Opens With UMass Today | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon Is Blue. Now Washington Street marquees bear a revolting resemblance to the walls of a grammar school locker room...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Give'Em Hell | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...this-a skyscraper but not the monstrous thing the skyscraper was to become later. He still managed to keep it with a human sense. There were Ravenna mosaics on the floor, but they covered them up with rugs. A lot of it has been spoiled by inferior desecrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wright Word | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Breeders tried to blame the flop on the fact that too many inferior skins had been put on sale. Furriers offered less hope. One said that the fur does not wear well, is difficult to work and is too expensive. Said another: "In the old days you would sell those things to people who went to operas and horse shows, but today everybody wears sport clothes to the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Fur Fiasco | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...with temperament and ego and vanity, and again with irresponsibility and self-indulgence, disappointment and regret-with the minor-key emotions of which Chekhov was already a master. For Chekhov did find himself in The Sea Gull, while still owing much to others: he is actually inferior in it to the precise degree that he is indebted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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