Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least two generations, Europeans have seen that the U.S. is the greatest economic success story in history. But the men in charge of Europe's economic destinies long clung to the comfortable notion that the U.S. owes her prosperity not so much to superior economic techniques as to the generosity of Providence. Last week, in the two greatest capitals of the Continent, there was increasing evidence that this old assumption was dying, and that Europe, at long last, was prepared to profit by U.S. experience...
...registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...
...success is not so much a matter of tactics on the field as it is a triumph of Tebbetts' psychology in the clubhouse. Maybe off the diamond the Redlegs will never learn their manager's supreme self-confidence, the positive faith that no man is his superior; maybe some of them sometimes settle for second best-say, in arguments with their wives. But on the ball field, Birdie has converted them all. "The way they're thinking now," says Birdie, "is that any one of them can make up for Klu. Because of Klu's absence...
...original theme is that of the alternation of the conflict and the agreement of two Renaissance principles in the person of England's monarch--that the sovereign must observe justice and that friendship is superior to sexual love...
...crop a Rembrandt painting to fit the space on the wall; nor do music publishers and performers "correct" Beethoven's and Chopin's "mistakes" as they used to. We should be allowed to judge a play just as the author left it, without the benefit of the director's superior insight as to how it ought to have been written. And, of all Shakespeare's plays, Othello is the one that most unhappily suffers cutting. The playing-time of this production is 165 minutes; the restoration of all the cuts would make the total running-time about three hours. Surely...