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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, much to everybody's relief, a rich nymphomaniac from Manhattan takes him in hand, and Crane goes back to college with a mighty superior attitude toward freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Much Ado About Adolescence | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated. But it is a matter of taste and not of logic whether or not one accepts his leveling integration and decides that vocational training is better than traditional discipline. The superior student would suffer; the average student might benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STREAMLINER | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...posing as a Russian Countess. Clark Gable represents the cabbages as Harry Van, hoofer and friend of the Countess. The tone of Sherwood's play has been lowered to suit the taste of the multitude, and a happy ending weakens the plot. But this is one the whole a superior picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/13/1939 | See Source »

...seems to me that such criticism of collegiate functions and activities has been entirely too much overdone at Harvard. We are normal individuals, not prepossessed of a superior or supercilious attitude toward the antics of our fellow students of other schools in general. WE are neither children to follow the rowdy trend, nor prematurely old, to withdraw completely. The Harvard group may be heterogeneous, and we are proud of it and attempt to become more representative of the U.S., but anyone of us might have fitted into the so called "Joe College" life at Cornell or Pennsylvania, for example. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...stands at the back of his doodlebug, put-putting along at four to twelve miles an hour. For a delivery, he leaves his scooter contentedly burbling at the curb, manages to save not only foot-power but some 23% of the time formerly needed to cover his route. His superior, Superintendent of Mails B. H. Kaigler, intends to recommend the scooter's adoption for mailmen in residential districts everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoot Business | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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