Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dartmouth's high-flying sextet, the experts are waiting only for tomorrow morning's contest in Hanover to see the final page written in the 1946-1947 pennant race. A Green victory over the Crimson by a decisive margin in their first clash this year would show the Hanoverians superior to all opposition even though the schedule has barely reached mid-season, and should insure them of any easy coast thereafter to the League championship...
Item: Richard Strauss felt superior to the Nazis but not to their money, spent his time writing music for Goering's wedding and Hirohito's birthday. He was, when I visited him last summer, entrenched in Lausanne's most chic hotel, a stooped, white-haired man who was rather ashamed of his position in the world during the past 15 years...
...Unicorns, with a previous 6-1 win over the Chasemen, showed greater ease and speed in skating, and profited from their longer experience on the ice. Superior teamwork kept the Crimson even until halfway into the final period, when they tired and allowed the opposition two quick scores and victory...
...need relaxation, and the Union management to date has supplied only ping-pong tables, inexpensive dances, discussion groups, bridge, chess, music, and stamp clubs, opportunity to create a Yardling publication, and a debating society. Students have stayed away in droves from these pedestrian activities in favor of the obviously superior sport and excitement of springing butter from a knife onto a convenient ceiling...
...diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta, an Oklahoma heiress who zealously seines big names from Washington's social sea. The sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise and confidence...