Word: superior
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...married a Presbyterian; I received my theological education in Congregational seminaries," says Bishop Kennedy. "My closest ministerial friends have been from other denominations as often as from my own. I do not feel that my church is religiously or theologically superior to other Christian churches. Indeed, there have been many times when Methodists were saved from being at ease in Zion because other churches were on the march...
Complete Courtmen. Yet such are the demands of modern basketball that each of these players has a flaw, however slight. Chamberlain, Baylor and Pettit are less than superior as playmakers. Boston's Russell is an erratic scorer. Not only is the short Cousy no rebounder, but he is no great shakes on defense-despite his flashy interceptions...
According to Charles Baudelaire's defi-nition-by-negation of a superior man-"He is not a specialist"-Benjamin Franklin was one of the most superior men who ever lived. He was also, according to Phillips Russell's widely read biography, "the first civilized American." Superior or merely civilized, he certainly spread himself. Almost everyone now knows that he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, that he-founded the Saturday Evening Post and the Philosophical Society of America, but even the brighter college students may be surprised to learn that he was a glass manufacturer who designed...
...proceeds by remorseless chronology from the 13th edition of Poor Richard's Almanack (next to the Bible, the bestseller of the day) until a year or so before Franklin got to fly that famous kite in the thunderstorm. Those who like to smile with superior historical hindsight can do so on page 374 with the realization that Franklin was getting warm on lightning conductors. "A wet rat," wrote Ben firmly, "cannot be killed by an exploding electrical bottle...
...doctors' latest report to Kennedy says: "Your health is excellent. Your vitality, endurance and resistance to infection are above average. Your ability to handle an exhausting work load is unquestionably superior...