Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However well one might have been prepared for Saturday night's frustrating display, it is always disappointing to see a superior team lose in the manner that the varsity lost to B.C. The Crimson, rallying after a shockingly bad start, dominated play for the better part of the evening. Its plays were much more organized than were those of B.C., but the varsity showed its almost traditional weakness of being unable to finish off a scoring play...
...fact that the varsity was able to make this touchdown before time ran out provided a big psychological lift, and Harvard was obviously the superior team once the second half began...
...steady, well-coordinated attack of the Yale J.V. eleven proved far superior to the Crimson's sporadic attempts to catch up as the Elis marched to a 28-14 victory at Soldiers Field yesterday...
...most part, meritocracy works; the upper class knows for the first time in history that it is superior in all ways to the lower; and the intellectual proletariat is encouraged to accept a "just inferiority" and develop a liking for sports. Modern wonders abound in Young's Utopia; the morning rocket leaves regularly for the moon, and England's southwestern counties have been covered with concrete for the convenience of motorists. But even as the author writes, the end is in sight. A general strike is called by a fusion party of disgruntled old men, trade unionists dimly...
...adding more traveling representatives, the Admissions Office would not only insure each applicant a qualified interviewer, but would stimulate interest in many superior secondary school students whom the Harvard dragnet does not now enmesh. This addition to the Admissions staff would certainly cost more money, but the selection of the best undergraduate body for Harvard College is certainly well worth the expenditure...