Word: superiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ignore the fact that these critics act on a theory of art which does not countenance such tomfoolery. Only when art leads to a modification or intensification of sensibility is it distinct from Eliot's "superior amusement," or even more degrading, a virtue. Some people seem still to believe in Puritan fashion that reading the good book is in itself righteous...
Against Brown and Columbia in its two most recent contests, the Crimson first blew a game and then was outplayed by a much superior aggregation. Amherst will pose the problem of a spirited well-coordinated small college team without the ability of Columbia...
...German general these days is where was he on July 20, 1944. That was the date of the German generals' attempt on Hitler's life. In Paris, as chief of staff in France. Speidel was intimately involved in the plot to overthrow Hitler, but like his superior. Rommel, disapproved of assassinating him. When the assassination attempt failed, Speidel was one of those cross-questioned by SS interrogators but handled himself so skill fully that Hitler never got enough on him to hang him with the rest...
...envelopes are lean. ("Anyone who was on strike in December, even for two days, will see the difference in his pay.") After a six-day "trial," Freedom Fighters Joszef Dudas, who led an attack on the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in October, and Janos Szabo, who led a stand against superior Soviet forces in the battle of Budapest's Moscow Square, were found guilty of "trying to overthrow the Hungarian People's Democracy," and executed. The Hungarian Writers' Union, which had sparked the revolution, and the National Association of Journalists were dissolved. Two writers were indicted for having...
...original application, the station had applied for any one of four different channels, but the FCC has since limited it to 107.1. This channel has the disadvantage of being at the far right of the FM dial (108 is the last channel on the right), but it is technically superior to the other three channels applied for, in that it has less interference...