Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist delegation of 50 was received at City Hall?something Mayor Walker would never have braved. Mayor McKee listened to their extravagant relief demands, then challenged them as to how their ends could be legally met. Wriggling and squirming under his superior logic, Reds weakly retorted that that...
That the world is demoralized he thinks not altogether a bad sign. "Our epoch . . . believes itself more than all the rest, and at the same time feels that it is a beginning. What expression shall we find for it? Perhaps this one: superior to other times, inferior to itself. Strong, indeed, and at the same time uncertain of its destiny; proud of its strength and at the same time fearing it." Most of his book is an analytical arraignment of the mass-mind, tyrant of the age. "The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself...
...champion boxer, was talked of several days ago as a possibility for the United States Senate. Tunney in the ring would have been no match for a gorilla. The gorilla would have crushed him in ten seconds. But Tunney is more intelligent; he would be the gorilla's superior in the Senate. This preserves the balance of power. . . . "In California, where land is cheap and the climate marvelous, visitors to the Olympic Games will see many wonderful bargains in real estate. Visitors to Columbus Circle, marvelous center in busy New York, will see wonderful real estate bargains...
...satisfy his purpose of studying fur ther the origin of cosmic rays. His last observations agreed with famed Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan that the rays emanate from between the stars.* The new aluminum gondola which he had built to carry himself and his new assistant, Max Cosyns, 25, was superior to last year's which, covered with tourists' scratchings, rests in the library of the Free University, Brussels...
...Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice, Father Jean Vedier visited the U. S. in 1923. Born of a modest family, he was a scholarly, obscure teacher until Pope Pius XI jumped him over innumerable bishops and made him Archbishop and Cardinal (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929). First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior...