Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey, conducted by Carl C. Seltzer for the Department of Hygiene and recently published in the Journal of Psychology, is based primarily on studies of the Classes of 1943 and 1944. In these classes, the report states, "Students admitted from public schools presented markedly superior academic performances in the Freshman year than those admitted from private schools...
...pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor to do, by making him something of a jaunty rake and something more of a sophisticate. His Iago was decidedly not one of unalloyed evil and superior intellect. The other actors gave the impression of being just a little self-conscious on the stage, and they read the poetry as if it had been written by Bill Cunningham...
...fishing of oysters," said Moscow Radio this week, "has been renewed in the Black Sea after an interval of 30 years." And where did Soviet bivalves stand in the eternal competition with the west? Before listeners had a chance to ask, Moscow proudly asserted: "The Black Sea oysters are superior in taste and nourishing qualities to French or British oysters...
...Little." Then the Gimo laid down the new line of strategy, assayed the nation's resources to win the ultimate battle. "We have made serious military mistakes," he conceded. No longer would his armies attempt to defend all of the nation at once. They would strike, with superior strength, at strategic points of their own choosing, henceforth fight a war of "big-eat-little." The immediate objective was a limited one: "I guarantee within six months to annihilate all Communists below the Yellow River." Had he written off Manchuria? He had not ("in 60 years the Reds will...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...