Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard clicks which is something it has not done this season, it should score an easy victory. On the other hand, if Harvard should play the same unsubstantial football as it has in the major games this season, Brown's superior speed and deceptive attack may earn its second consecutive win in the Stadium...
...crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks is interfering, to go to hell, to get off the lot. By the time the last few loads are mixed, even anti-Bolshevik readers will be sitting on the edge of their chairs, breathing hard through their noses. When the whistle blows, the record has been...
...about digging in for another winter on a six-week food supply. But Hartley's life-long luck comes out of temporary hiding, and Brice, after forcing promises from all hands that none of the "messy" incidents shall be disclosed, cynically gives back the reins to his chastened superior in time for Broadway's anointment of ticker tape...
...Morgan's technical superior at the California Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate Robert Andrews Millikan, would not let Dr. Morgan's acknowledgment pass so modestly. Exclaimed he proudly : "Dr. Morgan's discoveries in genetics are among the great fundamental discoveries in the realms of biology...
...settled rebelliously down in Micmac, went back to work to get more money. When she met young Larry, bank teller in the local cathedral of commerce, the weather seemed a little brighter. Larry was a steady young fellow but those were boom days: the funny business that his superior banksters were involved in finally dragged him in too. When the boom broke and the bank was caught in the rush. Larry went to jail with the rest. But Deena was waiting for him when he came...