Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have H-bombs; the British will produce them. The United States concentrates on such weapons to offset the superior manpower of the Soviet bloc. Thus we have a competition in means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed...
...coming tennis amateur needs is a taste for the right clothes, a talent for cocktail-party chatter and a superior knack for belting tennis balls. It is no trick at all to parlay such gifts into a year-round, expenses-paid vacation-wives and kids included. But many young players are not satisfied with such mild rewards. After he won the U.S. singles title in the summer of 1953, crew-cut Tournament Traveler Tony Trabert announced his intentions: for another season or so he would make a name for himself in amateur tennis; then he would be open to offers...
...Toccata for Percussion (conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). Probably the most recent (1953) of its genre, this is a taut and restrained composition for six players and 18 instruments. Partly because of a recording job of rare fidelity and superior performance, partly because it is a master-crafted composition, this is a stunning record...
...wildest scoring game over seen in the IAB, the Eli freshmen crushed the Yardlings, 112 to 78. Scoring 56 points in each half, the junior Blues were far superior to the Crimson. Yale's 6-10 center, Jerry Glenn, led all the scorers in the debacle with 29 points...
...second factor will be the Crimson's superior record. The eight has won fives matches, tied two, one of which was with Princeton-a club which easily defeated the Elis- and lost two. Yale, on the other hand, has lost six meets and won only three-not a "red-hot record," as Eli Coach John O'Donald puts...