Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Superior Way. Rebekah Harkness' infatuation for the dance began when she took a few ballet lessons as a budding debutante in St. Louis. Her "career" ended at 19, when she appeared in Aïda and was reprimanded by her stockbroker father for not wearing enough clothes. In 1947 she married FinancierPhilanthropist William Hale Harkness, inherited his fortune in Standard Oil holdings when he died seven years later. Searching for a vocation "superior to the way of life I was born to-society," she took a stab at interior decorating, sculpting and piano playing, eventually turned to writing semiclassical...
Heineman is already looking beyond creation of the Milwaukee & North Western. He is fighting the Union Pacific for control of the Rock Island, is awaiting ICC approval of his recent acquisition of the Chicago Great Western. His goal: a 30,000-mile railroad that would stretch from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico and from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean. Such a road would be second in mileage only to the Soviet Union's state-owned, 79,000-mile system...
Increasingly, priests and laymen disobey the orders of an immediate superior in the name of obedience to "the mind of the church." One striking example took place in England last month where Father Arnold McMahon of Worcestershire and Father Joseph Cocker of the Isle of Wight openly challenged the church's position on contraception. "The official teaching authority has decreed that contraception is always wrong," wrote Father McMahon in the Birmingham Post. "This is what I deny." It is also denied in practice by millions of Catholics. "They don't leave the church over birth control nowadays," says...
...Stirring. From those tiny things, the two men boldly re-created a vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were...
...human life rather than degrade it. By eliminating unskilled jobs, modern technology will release millions of men and women from bestial drudgery. Instead of dehumanizing their makers, machines will give people new dignity and new intellectual stature. They will, in short, create a new improved American, a citizen as superior to the old brand of American as Sugar Pops are superior to Kix. "The argument here," Asbell says, "is that our new machines are finally forcing more of us into the grand quest of trying to discover ourselves as human beings...