Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Superior officers had by this time noted Samurai Araki's keenness. He was promoted to the General Staff. During the World War, when Japan seized Germany's foothold on the Chinese mainland (Kiaochow) but was later forced to disgorge it, Staff Officer Araki was Japanese military attaché in Russia, gained invaluable knowledge of modern practices of slaughter by incessant observation trips up and down the Eastern Front...
Hard, brilliant hitting, clever team work, and superior mounts determined the 12 to 5 victory of the Harvard Varsity polo team against the slightly favored 110th Cavalry aggregation in the Commonwealth Armory last Saturday night. While the score shows the obvious one-sidedness of the game, the play was nevertheless fast and without a dull moment, the individual and collective power of the Crimson riders. Nicholas, McGuckin, and Davis, a Senior-Junior-Sophomore triumvirate, definitely proving the Harvard team to be a dangerous threat for the Boston indoor championship...
...Fighting against an enemy possessing superior arms," said General Ho, "we held the city through three days and nights. . . . That must be considered a redeeming feature of the situation. . . . There may be criticism but my conscience is clear...
According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...These prove to me that the people have an advanced conception of the modern rules of life and that they are capable of establishing and maintaining rules of conduct equal or superior to those found in many of the old and independent nations...