Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's team with that of 1954. Because the squad has had only three days' regular practice, it is in poorer condition than last season's starting twelve. The quality of the new team, however should rise faster and farther than that of last year's team, due to superior potentiality of this season's runners...
...United States," said the letter, "whatever our protestations of superior virtue . . . have inherited in great measure the fears and resentments of Asia toward the West . . . We can make a case for the very mixed benefits of empire and of economic penetration motivated by the desire for gain. Before God and men, we can make no case for contempt and assumptions of racial superiority. These are the deepest roots of our alienation from Asia. For these there is no answer but repentance...
...state has already made an impressive start toward helping its superior students. West Hartford's Alfred Plant Junior High School began an experimental program for them in 1950. At Hillhouse High School in New Haven, exceptionally bright students were put to work handling primary source material for a civic commemoration. Programs have also been set up in Darien, Fairfield, Norwalk, Cheshire, Stratford. Almost all Connecticut schools, in varying degrees, have begun to give special attention to superior students...
...other states facing the same problem: a progress report by an eight-state-Committee on the Gifted and Bright that has been sent to 350 prominent educators in the Northeast, will be published in December as a booklet. Some of its points: ¶Contrary to common opinion, superior and talented children are more stable emotionally than the average child, and more mature physically. ¶Such children should be given a minimum of practice in the fundamental skills (e.g., arithmetic, reading), should be al lowed to create and solve problems, concentrate on research and reading. ¶Any extra time they have...
...inhabitants of other worlds could be like us, but they could also be much superior to us in sense and will. And perhaps they also surpass us in gratitude to the Creator and in goodness and love to all that demands love and kindness. [But] in principle we must say that the Christian order of redemption was realized by God for this world . . . Only we, who are descended from Adam, are born in original sin, and God became man to redeem us ... His church and His sacraments are [not] valid for . . . other planets...