Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform again, but simply to defend the reputations of those of us who are 40 and over, I protest we are still potential. The late Arthur Brisbane argued and the still kicking Dr. Richard T. Ely (80 plus) is demonstrating that older sires tend to produce intellectually superior offspring...
...godly, pike-backed salty sailor who in his lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the modern navies of the world. In his 40 years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy men agree that his pen was mightier than a flotilla...
Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
...Remember the Maine" is distinctly inferior to Walter Millis's classic exposition, but such a statement does not imply complete condemnation of Mr. Mason's book. Mr. Mason has written in a pleasing, colorful style, and on one point he is even superior to Millis as a creator of atmospheric background for the United States' imperialistic adventure. He avoids the harsh, extreme one-sidedness of the earlier author, who in general seems to have felt that our participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana...
There is no doubt that a chorus of young people, enthusiastic, and singing for the sake of singing itself is infinitely superior to an older professional group if the purely technical problems of fullness of tone and precision of performance can be overcome. The success of Mr. Woodworth in obtaining results of high professional standard from the student choir, in spite of the tremendous size of the yearly schedule, has provided this community with just such a chorus...