Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worker missionaries have avoided many of the pitfalls that helped wreck the worker priest movement, e.g., Communist inroads, marriage by some priests. For one thing, the sisters are kept under tight discipline, report frequently to their superior; for another, working mostly with women, they do not face so tough a political opposition. Abbe Roussel, who reports directly to Cardinal Feltin of Paris, looks forward to seeing his secular movement turn eventually into a full-fledged religious order...
Harvard is not being superior or looking down its nose at others when it defines its special role as giving the most challenging, stretching and enriching education it can to a limited number of academically highly able students. This is what we are peculiarly fitted to do, and it is important for the nation that it be done well, that the men in this group, who are going to be the future scholars, scientists, teachers, government officials, top professional men and managers, get the kind of education they need and we can give them. Our job is to give them...
...friend of Henry Adams once twitted him on the Boston climate: "Boston was 1,387,453 years under the ice; and then the Adamses came." If the Adamses were both chilly and superior, they had a great deal to be superior about. Henry's great-grandfather John and his grandfather John Quincy were U.S. Presidents. His father Charles Francis was Minister to the Court of St. James's (1861-68). Though he wrote two masterpieces (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams), Henry Adams mocked himself as a lifelong failure, perhaps because he clung to the Confucian...
...Advanced Standing Program, established in March, 1954, enables superior secondary school students to omit certain elementary freshman courses. Any student receiving Advanced Placement in three such courses may be admitted as a sophomore. There is also a provision for Early Admission of selected 11th grade secondary school students directly into the freshman class...
Correlating his information, Ford could reconstruct the history of Poverty Point. As early as 10,000 years ago, he says, a very primitive people lived in the region. They left few relics except crude stone weapons. Then, about 1000 B.C., people of superior culture must have come down from the north. They made beautiful flint spearheads, knew how to work copper...