Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vichy water was replaced by an Indian Spring water which was found superior...
...returns to work until midnight. Her long hours cost her the services of her first government chauffeur. She usually wears her hat in the office. Her secretary is an efficient, rather bossy person named Frances Jurkowitz-"Miss Jay" to all-one of whose first duties is to ensure her superior as much privacy as possible. Madam Secretary used to serve ginger ale out of her own pocket at press conferences but stopped it when someone remarked that the Government paid for the paper cups. She uses no powder, no rouge, no perfume, dresses mostly in severe blacks and dark browns...
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland. There they met the S. S. Jellinge, a 3,500-ton Danish tramp chartered by Pan American, outfitted as a floating laboratory, sent north from Philadelphia last month. Its research staff is headed by Pan American's Major Robert A. Logan, Canadian War ace who bombed the headquarters of Germany's Prince Rupprecht before the famed Richthofen shot him down. Ten years...
...most powerful foreign navy. ... As regards cruisers we shall soon have the Dunkerque, which foreign admiralties agree already must be considered the world's most powerful capital ship. . . . Whether it be in mine layers, mine sweepers, submarines, light or heavy cruisers we possess ships equal if not superior to those of Britain, America or Japan. . . . The Dunkerque will be a veritable King...
...conquest of inferiority can cut two ways as N. E. A. discovered last week after its convention had disposed of its outside enemies. Still full of fight, the Association's "inferior" members (i. e. classroom teachers) uprose against its "superior" members (i. e. principals and superintendents) who have long controlled its organization. Flayed was the influence of State superintendents, life directors and past presidents who sit ex officio on the N. E. A. assembly. Cried one critic: "We don't have ex-Presidents in the Congress . . . and. thank God. we don't have ex-Mayors...