Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goals. Dillingham started the scoring immediately after the opening throw-in with a nice full forward shot from three-quarter field, but the cavalrymen came back strong to gain a commanding lead in goals scored by the end of the second chukker. From the third chukker on however, the superior team work of the Crimson trio enabled the Harvard malletmen to come out on the long end of the score...
...Lenz and Culbertson systems, one of which will supposedly be proven superior, differ chiefly in that when Lenz makes an opening bid of two in any suit, he invites (without compelling) his partner to make an answering bid. Culbertson's initial bid of two is a command for partner to respond, no matter how weak partner's hand may be. Here is what each expert feels he must have in his hand for opening suit bids of one, two or three: Bid Lenz Culbertson 1 2½ tricks 2½ tricks No difference...
...raison d'etre. The first inter-collegiate contest in which it engaged was in 1829, when the representatives of the Cambridge Union were met at Oxford. William Edward Gladstone, then President of the Union, arranged this meeting. The motion on this occasion read, 'that Shelley as a poet was superior to Byron." The Oxford men defended creditably their late undergraduate...
...encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across the frozen steppes...
This is the rejuvenation of the yellow race to a point where they will be equal if not superior in power to the Caucasians. At the basis of this change lies the naturalization of China. China, the largest country in the world with her population of 400,000,000 people, has been a puppet in the hands of the Europeanized nations with their national unity. In her disorganized state she has been helpless. Without any national feeling but controlled sectionally by selfish lords who relied on their army to keep them in power, China could not organize. But give...