Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undertake advanced work, has been denigrated by some who argue that this is a foregone conclusion: freshman courses are graded more rigorously than middle-group offerings. But this would not account for the later years when the advanced standing students appear to maintain and improve the margin of their superior performance. And it would certainly not account for the fact that, of those who have graduated, almost half have received degrees of magna or better...
...Owen, 23, organized and addressed meetings of unhappy reservists at Fort Polk that drew as many as 700 men. When the meetings were banned by his commanding general, Owen told a newsman that the order was "a hilarious climax to a chain of injustices." For such disrespect to a superior officer, Owen got a court-martial sentence of a $300 fine and six months at hard labor...
Wrote he in his ad: "There are others who think that superior armaments will solve the problem. They scorn those who believe in the strength of a just cause...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss add up to 12 ft. 1¼ in. of fun in a tall story about 4,000 chuckleheaded U.S. servicemen locked in unequal struggle with a superior enemy: one sneaky Japanese soldier...
...intense, if short-lived concentration and a lively sense of balance and space-filling. If you compare the painting of a young ape with that of a human child of relatively the same age, you will find that in the first, expressive, patternmaking stage, the ape is superior...