Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John & Sam. Pluming himself on superior financial morality, John Bull fairly screamed his abuse at Uncle Sam. "A calculated breach of contract!" shrilled the Financial Times which added: "The word default has an ugly sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers...
...corker the way time goes? You can't accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent people he had ever known. The ''very superior" class was four times as large as among normal U. S. citizens. Popular. Marshall went everywhere in the hospitable Koyukuk. talked to everybody except the few Eskimos who spoke no English, painstakingly tabulated his findings. He even listed the quarrels during his stay (43). their ten causes, from insults to insanity...
Four Eliot runs in the fourth inning put the game on ice, as hitting was very sparse, with Eliot getting five safe blows and Adams three. The Leverett Rabbits were held to four hits by the superior pitching of H. S. Golde...
There are now in use instruments of 24, 16, 6, and 4 inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory...
Producer Zanuck is fond of telephones that fall apart, flypaper seats, and of "ribbing" his friends in a high rasping voice. Once at a Hollywood party he was found trying to write a story under a rug. His friend and immediate superior, Vice President Jack Warner, opposed Zanuck's resignation last week. Outsiders wondered whether President Harry Warner, ready to cut off his nose to spite his face, had cut off his head instead. Zanuck plans to produce 12 pictures a year with his new company. He will be paid $4,500 a week, 50% of the profits...