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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire, and you may take it upon the authority of M. Anatole France that its social habits are in many instances superior to those of its well known relative, homo sapiens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1932 | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring at the source, when, as a little girl she had watched R. move into an apartment across the hall from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with him were so angelically bright, that the girl began to worship him. His doormat became sacred ground, his doorknob the shining star of love. Through thick & thin she pursued that star until, grown up, she at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intimations of Immorality | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...creation for himself of a post called Political and Parliamentary Secretary to the Defense Ministry. There he had a finger in both political and military pies, wangled his way into the President's confidence and first showed his strength earlier this year by maneuvering out of office his immediate superior, Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener. Last week General von Schleicher was credited with having made the President believe that "the army could not be depended on in a crisis with Dr. Brüning as Chancellor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Cabinet of Monocles | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...ancient alchemists, need paraphernalia to advertise their trade. Post-Einsteinian runes will decorate their doors, philosopher's stones, alembics, superhuman skeletons their cells. From their ceilings (relatively) will hang dried four-dimen-sional alligators-their entrails furnished by alligator-stuffers like Author Fort. Some fine wads of his superior stuffing are to be found in this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alligator Stuffing | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

ROSA Newmarch has included in the fourth volume of this attractive series notes on symphonies, overtures, and concertos. Handy in size, and superior in print to the average program book, this volume will prove extremely valuable to listeners who go to hear works for the first time. There is more detailed musical discussion than one finds in Mr. Philip Hale's Boston Symphony notes, and each article is written in a pleasant manner which will reassure the layman. Perhaps only in the notes on Brahms, however, does the criticism prove superior to that of the dean of musical critics...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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