Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife, a dauntless lady with a superior figure. Finally, there was Edward Vanbrugh (born 1891), the narrator's own father, who returned after long and distinguished service in World War I to a wife whom he had known only three days. She met him at Victoria Station, and the two went off for two blissful nights...
...Superior. In Dayton, on a large and complicated electronic recording machine at police headquarters, a cop wrote: "Do not push any buttons. Do not turn off any switch. Do not turn tape by hand. Do not breathe on machine. Salute as you pass...
...rejects his critics' "supranaturalistic" view that "takes the Christian message to be a sum of revealed truths which have fallen into the human situation like strange bodies from a strange world." Man, he holds, "cannot receive answers to questions he has never asked." Tillich also considers his system superior to the "humanistic" systems of liberal theology, which derive the Christian message from man's natural self-development and the unfolding of human history. He also attacks the combination of natural and supranatural theology found in Roman Catholicism, with its "socalled arguments for 'the existence...
...Yard." Incoming Sophomores, especially those with Harvard fathers, often feel that the Yard is a part of College life not to be missed. Furthermore, the new Sophomore likes to seek friends at his own age level; in the Yard he is equal to all in years while being superior to most in scholastic attainment. In its circular, the A.P. Department proposes a compromise plan: let the new Sophomore live in the Yard for a term, and then let him move to a House. This rarely happens, however; only 12 sophomores of the 45 remaining in the Yard even contemplated such...
...poll of 30 freshmen, about half felt that House food is better than that at the Union; the other half, however, could see little difference. Two freshmen called the Union's food superior to that at the Houses...