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Word: superiority (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother Duncan's nurse was slight, auburn-haired Olga Kupczyk, 30, recently of Vancouver, Canada. After Mother Duncan was sent home, Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home to mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...apartment door and scream threats. Twice Olga changed apartments to escape her mother-in-law; each time Mother Duncan trailed Frank to his rendezvous. And one day last August mother Duncan hired an ex-convict to act as her son, posed herself as Olga, got a Ventura County superior court judge to annul her son's marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Perfect Partners. Brooklyn-born Betty and Bronx-born Adolph complement each other perfectly. As a performer Betty is ironic but cool and soothing-a superior psychiatric nurse. Adolph, with his rubber-kneed strut, his wild hair and mad eyes, is clearly her patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: A Party for Friends | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...schools and departments. Said Financier Paul Mellon,* Yaleman ('29) and chairman of the trust: "This grant is made with the understanding that the salaries paid to the Andrew Mellon professors will be such as to attract eminent men capable of distinguished scholarship . . . and will be commensurate with or superior to the best salaries paid in like fields in any other American university [best guess: $20,000 or more]. It is hoped that this nucleus of distinguished scholars and students may set a standard and a goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Standard & Goal | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

There are those who consider the current Montreal team the greatest ever in hockey, superior to the Boston Bruins of the '30s or the Detroit Red Wings, who won seven straight championships in the late '40s and early '50s. Last week Les Canadiens won three straight to pull far ahead of the second-place Red Wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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