Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only lady who has taken a prominent position that she has not met this season being Miss Davies. This lady was defeated by Mrs. Watts at Leicester, and as the latter was afterwards beaten by Miss M. Watson at Exmouth, on collateral form, the Berkeswell lady is considerably her superior. The lady champion plays such a strong game, and is possessed of such excellent nerve and judgment, that with good health she bids fair to retain her proud position for some time to come.-[Pastime...
...Billy" in the hall. The letter-slide clicks and in come two or three letters, one in particular, with a nice envelope, sealed, and addressed in a fine feminine hand. It naturally is opened first. Fine tinted cards drop out, and a note is enclosed, engraved on a superior quality of paper...
...procession, as a whole, was superior to anything that has been seen in Boston this year...
...accordingly see that Pennsylvania had the same excuse for their poor showing on Saturday as Princeton put forth on the occasion of their 4-0 game against Stevens Institute. Harvard needs but little sympathy. more especially as, in the expressed opinion of the Pennsylvania players, she presented a team superior to their...
...following men compose the superior court of the Thayer Club in the Law School : Beale, Cabot, Crocker, Davis, Endicott, Gammell, Hayes, Turner and Wilkins...