Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those on the silver roll went to others marked "silver." Drinking fountains labeled gold and silver stood side by side. At the post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically they had that right. Worst of all, it was practically impossible to move from the low-paid silver list to the privileged gold roll. After 43 years there are exactly 54 Panamanians on the gold roll...
...Lake Ontario. In 1921 it appeared in Lake Erie, presumably detouring Niagara Falls via the Welland Canal. Step by step it pioneered the Lakes, reaching Lake St. Clair in 1930 and Lake Michigan in 1936. This year, the first lamprey was caught on the U.S. side of Lake Superior...
...most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...
...football fever swept Cambridge early and stayed late right up to that final, windy afternoon in November when 57,000 fans jammed into the Stadium to watch a once-beaten Crimson eleven smash across two quick, first-period touchdowns and then knuckle under to superior Eli power, as the script had specified. There was always next year, of course, and with seven of the Varsity regulars returning, it was fairly easy to start looking ahead...
...experiment, the researchers chose 69 children, aged 5 to 17, including a mentally retarded group (average I.Q.: 65), and some epileptics of normal or superior intelligence (glutamic acid had previously been used for treating epilepsy). The children got heavy daily doses (average: 12 grams), usually mixed with food, because glutamic acid by itself is sour, oily and unpalatable. In too big doses, the acid made the children restless and sleepless; in doses they could tolerate, it produced a remarkable improvement in alertness, drive, ability to solve problems. At the end of a year the children's I.Q.s had risen...