Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that men edit women's magazines very well," says blue-eyed Bruce Gould. "They always take a superior attitude toward women." But as long as Beatrice is around on the Journal, there is no danger of that...
...Process. In San Jose, Calif., Ernest J. Gee explained to a superior court judge why he couldn't serve on the jury: he was the defendant...
Prescription. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bertha Burton Adams assured the superior court that she felt her life of "drudgery and trouble" would take a turn for the better if she were allowed to change her name to Gentle Dove...
...what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...
...river gunboat Panay in 1937. That was also the year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls of the Yamato and Musashi, 63,700-ton battleships. By 1941 the Japanese navy was "more powerful than the combined Allied Fleets in the Pacific." It was superior to the U.S. fleet, says Morison, in destroyers and torpedo design, and its carrier planes "Zeke" and "Kate" were to prove superior in the early months...