Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall premature announcements were made that Princeton was about to put the Blackmer report--which proposed wide spread changes designed to speed up the work of the superior student--into effect, and admit qualified eleventh graders...
After yesterday's meet, McCurdy called this year's squad much superior to last year's team which finished 12th...
When up against an obviously superior practitioner of Globemanship, an audacious ploy, one best used by stay-at-homes of an intellectual appearance, is to abandon all pretense about having been to Europe and, indeed, to disclaim all knowledge of and interest in The Continent. The professional Inpatriate will wear a look of complete boredom while Europe is the topic, being careful, of course, not to let his expression be accurately interpreted as one of ignorance. Since, however, even people who have been to Europe are usually bored when others talks about it, the Inpatriate should occasionally interject a question...
...Massachusetts bill, passed a week ago, gives all Massachusetts judges the right to report a case to the Commonwealth's Supreme Judicial Court if a question of law is involved. It is believed that Superior Court Judge Louis Goldberg, because of the Pennsylvania decision, has reported Mrs. Gilbert's appeal to the Massachusetts court...
Without delay the Board of Regents asked Mitchell's superior, W. V. Lambert, dean of the College of Agriculture, to investigate and report to them as soon as possible. Lambert subsequently opened his remarks to the regents with a powerful statement of principles (see box) which they liked so well that they adopted it and incorporated it in the University's records as a declaration of university policy...