Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...
...indexes, it expresses the value of its stocks relative to a base period, currently the years between 1935 and 1939. Some professional traders prefer the Standard & Poor because its greater number of stocks presents a broader picture of the market and also because they feel that it is statistically superior. But the fact is that Dow-Jones and Standard & Poor are in fairly close agreement from day-to-day. Both show the same broad ups and downs in the market, and their analysis of the degree of change often matches...
...thing about the film is that the message is delivered by a Negro (Sidney Poitier) to a white man (John Cassavetes). Surprisingly enough in a Hollywood movie, the Negro is not only the white man's boss, but becomes his best friend, and is at all times his superior, possessing greater intelligence, courage, understanding, warmth and general adaptability. The mystery is why so engaging a Negro would waste time on so boringly primitive a white...
Confusion over Jordan's dismissal, while aggravated by the conflicting pressures of publicity and secrecy, largely seemed to stem from the lack of real definition of the College's role within the Ivy League. Football, as a sport designed to prove the superiority of eleven men over eleven other men, must be played by people who want to win. But the Ivy League, as constituted in theory, is a group of colleges interested in friendly, healthful competition which will be a source of recreation to those qualified to play. In view of obvious attempts by alumni of the institutions...
Today the Parrenins are admired across Europe, but in 1942 they were simply superior students at the conservatory who liked to make music together. During the occupation, they might have been sent to forced labor in Germany-or at least to careers as orchestral musicians, which they felt would also mean oblivion-but for the intervention of the late conservatory director, Claude Delvincourt, who provided them with fake identification and ration cards, got them financial support that allowed them to go on playing as a quartet...