Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green--greater height, better team speed, and deeper reserves--do not preclude the possibility of an upset. In both its games this weekend, the varsity showed the hustle that has characterized its play throughout most of the current season, and with a few breaks could well have beaten the superior Cornell team it met on Saturday...
...guide mankind." What happened? His "messianic impulses" struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, but a hidden need for them. In "the movement" they found everything: "A dogma, a ritual, a leader, a hierarchy, the feeling of possessing the truth, of being superior to the uninitiated...
...making loans, special consideration will be given to prospective elementary and secondary school teachers, as well as students with "a superior capacity or preparation in sciences, mathematics, engineering, or a modern foreign language." Although the Act requires a "loyalty oath" from loan recipients, the University will make loans from its own funds to those, otherwise eligible, who find it impossible "in good conscience" to sign the required oath...
These RFA's, often superior as a group educationwise, entered the Army for their active duty with a relatively high level of enthusiasm, but every RFA to whom I have spoken agrees that his education was no asset during his basic training. Their leaders, in the traditional Army manner, would tell them, "Let us do all the thinking. It'll keep you all out of trouble," and although this was a statment of discipline, it was also one of fact. What was taught the men was often so overdone and geared for the minimum mentality that an intelligent person eventually...
...loyalty to TIME is due in large part to its superior prose. For instance, the lead sentence of the G.E. article is, surprisingly, a poem...