Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Russia may temporarily surpass the United States in technological development, the American system of education will ultimately prove superior, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 predicted yesterday in the Spaulding Lecture in Education, delivered at Yale...
...picture's inevitable shortcoming is simply that neither one of these two different types of movies is executed successfully. The underwater shots seem almost stolen from the routine Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef rather than the superior Sea Around Us and only tend to slow down Jules Verne's famous thriller to a turtle--and sometimes snail--speed...
...varsity's spotty defensive work, help by Ned Almy's dumping body, cheeks, was counterbalanced by the team's superior offensive power although the Eagles' D'Entr3emont's 96 saves held the Crimson in shock for most of the game...
...Politicians. St. Laurent had intended to name Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, 51, brilliant dean of the social-science faculty at Quebec's Laval University. Father Lévesque was ready to accept the post, and his Dominican Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...
...press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current... For my own part...I have reached the conclusion - that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious, or which is aesthetically superior to the time-honoured British practice of breaking their necks by hanging...