Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scoreboard evidence to the contrary. Big Ten superiority passed from the realm of fact to that of fancy long before the 1966 season. If you will use the same criterion by which Midwestern football came to be regarded as superior (national rankings, intersectional game victories), you will find that the Southeastern Conference has earned the distinction of being America's toughest league...
...housing codes since 1958, thousands of huge, moderately priced apartment towers are pure white. Despite a fairly large supply of open housing, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission estimates that, since 1958, fewer than 60 Negro families have moved into white areas. The Negro's desire to enjoy the superior schooling and housing of a white neighborhood is very much tempered by his fear of striking out alone. He has a long way to go before he will live side by side with the white man even in moderate numbers...
...today is Dartmouth's day to fall before a superior offensive line, an equal offensive and defensive backfield, and a slower but stronger defensive line. Here's for Harvard...
...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...
...taken the first steps toward defining and defeating these problems. His new Four-Year Plan, which won $21 million worth of support from Washington last month, envisions self-sufficiency in rice and corn production by 1969. His expedients: a combination of improved irrigation systems and more fertilizer plus such superior strains of rice as the rugged IR-8, developed by the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Oct. 7) at the rice institute at Los Ba?...