Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student who qualifies for advanced placement in three or more subjects may request that she be considered for fall sophomore standing, the second phase of the program. A few juniors in secondary schools, showing superior achievement and maturity, will also be admitted to the freshman class without needing a diploma...
...that ensued, Mrs. Walker contended that she took the menial job only to be closer to her real interest in life, labor unionism. Cutter officials charged that she wanted to be in the laboratory to further the aims of Communism. A National Labor Relations Board unit and a California Superior Court ordered the laboratory to reinstate her, holding that she had actually been fired because of union activities...
...swashbuckle down to their job. Exploring the inner man as well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some 250,000 Aztecs in the famed siege of Tenochtitlan. Remembered for a superior World War II novel (From the City, from the Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses, splashes his pages with just the right mixture of bravery and bravura. But beyond that, he captures what few historical novelists even pursue-the moment of impact between two cultures...
...shipments at a soap factory, a black-marketeering student with a nose for yen and a yen for such un-Japanese customs as holding hands and kissing. Like identical beads, these characters are threaded on the same theme another Japanese novelist, Kikou Yamata, recently used in her spare and superior novel, Lady of Beauty (TIME, Aug. 30). The theme: Japan isn't what it used to be. In traditional Japanese style. Author Osaragi frequently confuses his writing hand with the long arm of coincidence. He arranges no happy ending, but he does fashion a moving confrontation between Kyogo...
...Cornerstone, by Zoe Oldenbourg. A superior historical novel, told with massive detail, about medieval knighthood and knavery (TIME...