Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal battle began in the Middlesex County Superior court. William C. Brewer, lawyer for Brattle Films, Inc., drew up a brief demanding that the Commissioner of Public Safety permit Miss Julie to be shown and asking for a decision on the Constitutionality of the Sunday censorship law. Assistant Attorney General Arnold H. Salisbury opposed this claim with a demurrer, a legal technicality which stated that Brattle Films could not prove any real damage, and that the blue law was Constitutional anyway. The judge agreed, and tossed the case out of court...
...funds, McDonald indicated, are awarded to "superior boys who have been approved by the College's Scholarship and Admissions Committees...
Lesser men seized on his exalting of the "select minority" to forward the Nazi cause, conveniently disregarding his characteristic distinction that "the select man is not the petulant person who thinks himself superior to the rest but the man who demands more of himself than the rest . . ." When Spain overthrew the monarchy, against which he had inveighed so powerfully, Ortega took a seat in the new Cortes but almost immediately found the new republic "sad and sour," nothing like the enlightened instrument of civilization that he had envisioned...
From the outset, Michigan State was the superior team, stronger in tackling, blocking and ball handling. With a bewildering mixture of single-wing and T formations, the Spartans drove into Irish territory right after the kickoff, lost the ball on a fumble, then mounted another offensive that carried to the Notre Dame goal line. Notre Dame's perfect record ended just as the second quarter began, when Halfback Clarence Peaks went over for the first M.S.U. touchdown...
Ostensibly an explanation of the "naturally superior" Ivy intellect for people from west of the Alleghanies, the articles vary from a serious appraisal of the Ivy League education to a less high-minded account of the social life of Harvard "wonkies" and their Princeton and Yale counterparts, "ayools" and "weenies...