Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Communists will inevitably get the whole country in the all-Viet Nam elections of 1956 somewhat unspecifically provided for at Geneva. The Communists have dropped their anti-French propaganda ; instead the Communists are now vilifying Diem for "the brutal eviction of France," and for not obeying "his superior...
...never compromised with the dickens-of-it approach, nor has it ever ceased to make fundamental principles the entire content and purpose of its education. As a result, it occupies a special place in the esteem of scientists and engineers. Though it may have rivals, it has no superior anywhere in the world. "Other places," says Nobel Laureate Isidor Rabi of Columbia University, "have good people. But at Caltech, they are all good...
...Like Caltech. DuBridge also emerged out of an unlikely background. Born in Terre Haute. Ind., the son of a Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people the right...
...Ontario to spawn, then developed a fresh-water species. The building of Canada's Welland Canal provided a detour around the natural barrier of Niagara Falls, and in the past 20 years the pests have begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped out the $5,000,000-a-year lake-trout fisheries at Lakes Huron and Michigan, and are now threatening those in Lake Superior...
...Freshman Debate Council defeated both Yale and Princeton last night to win the triangular championship. Debating the topic, "Resolved, That the Federal Government should subsidize the higher education of superior students," one Crimson group won the affirmative at Princeton and another the negative in a unanimous decision here. James L. Kincaid, on the affirmative team, received the best speaker award...