Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the ten minute halftime break, the superior Crimson offense began to take advantage of some of the scoring opportunities Holy Cross had been handing them all afternoon. Bohn, attackman Jerry Pyle, and midfielder Charlie Devens each scored a goal in the first four minutes of the third period and put the varsity ahead to stay...
...movie in its own right, this is a competent, interesting Hollywood effort, marked by some superior acting. It is worth seeing on that account, but one had best give up all thoughts of Faulkner before going...
Dramatically, the film divides in two. Judd and Artie are pictured in their furtive and bumbling friendship--Judd much the more attractive of the two, because of his curious morality of anti-morality ("I tell you evil is beautiful"). Judd becomes a kind of ignoble Hamlet, a boy of "superior intellect" ill-adapted to a slick world of Stutz-Bearcats, bootlegged gin, and flappers. Artie, who dares him on, commands less sympathy, but lends a certain amount of humor in his badgering of the police and elaborately contrived lying...
Today "Duke" Vautier will be released on bail. He will face a hearing in Suffolk County Superior Court. Whatever happens he will hardly get anywhere in his constitutional struggle. And after not very long, the public will cease to be amused, and the headlines of the Globe, the Herald, and the Traveler will occupy themselves with something else...
Despite intermittent rain, the playing field was in surprisingly fine condition, though poorly marked off and too narrow for the Crimson backs to show off their superior speed. Many times a runner, almost in the clear as he sliced around the opponents' wing, would be forced out of bounds into the milling throng of spectators...