Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the day when its missile capability is completely foolproof, the U.S. Air Force intends to rely on bombers-the faster and higher-flying the better-controlled by alert crews whose accuracy and judgment are as yet superior to those of unmanned vehicles. Last week the Air Force announced that it would contract with Los Angeles' North American Aviation, Inc. for development of the WS (for weapon system) -110A, an intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will...
...special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher)-a school, he told reporters, that is very much like Plato's Academy. The Plato of the place: Harry Jakobsen, a $100-a-week tool designer-turned-guru. At week's end a somewhat mystified Superior Judge Frederick Hall gave Columbia until Jan. 3 to file an answer to Jacobsen's counterclaim...
...Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been so bored in public school that he had flubbed his studies, made constant mischief, was in danger of becoming a painfully shy neurotic until his parents placed him in a stiff private school geared to the superior student...
LAST TALES, by Isak Dinesen. Gothic stories ranging in scene from Denmark to Italy, and turning on the tragic ironies that bow kings as well as poets and murderers. Superior fare for those who like a mixture of the sublime, the grotesque and the supernatural...
...Glee Club and Choral Society buttressed the performance with superior singing. Never becoming obtrusive, they supplied spirit and strength, in addition to some beautiful quiet passages. Their preparation by Allan Miller was entirely adequate for an unusually disciplined and musical performance...