Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrapuntal placement of emphatic colors, arrives at an emotional shorthand which leads him to pointed interpretations of scenes and aspects of nature. His "Mt. Chocorua" exemplifies this phase of his painting and also serves to show traces of nineteenth century French art on his work. Marin's art is superior to that of Homer because his technique is used not simply as an end in itself but as a means for expressing a vigorous kind of aesthetic insight...
Shiny new violins and shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years: "You are all damned lucky to get Admiral Leahy...
That many German radio listeners should prefer un-Nazified B. B. C. news has been a source of surprise and indignation to Nazidom. In March the Nazis decided to fight fire with fire. "Our enemies," went the Nazi boast, "will soon realize that we are superior to them in the ether as well as in the air." On the day of the Memel occupation, Germany inaugurated medium-wave broadcasts in English, directed at England. The first "Heer iss Hamburg" bulletin depicted Nazi Memel as a "hurricane of happiness...
Coach Skip Stahley was very disappointed in the outcome, but admitted hat the Yale ten was far superior and leserved its victory. Poor stick handling and a faulty defense by the Crimson resulted in one Blue tally after another, as Captain Phil Hammond vainly tried to organize his men to an efficient offensive...