Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army & Navy: Louis Aubert, Adviser to the Superior Council of National Defense and Commander Dupre of the Naval General Staff...
Japan's standing army numbers 210,880, some 15,000 Japanese soldiers occupying Manchuria last week. Japan's trained reserve, citizens well drilled and ready to spring to the colors, topped 1,750,000. On the sea Japan has an incomparably superior navy of 798.394 tons. The entire Chinese Navy (68 ships) does not displace as much as one British super-dread-naught (40,000 tons). Japanese opinion of Chinese fighting strength was expressed by a Government spokesman at Tokyo: "if China declares war on Japan, we will simply ignore...
...inmate proved Dr. Babcock's method conclusively. His "vocabulary age" was 8, his intelligence test 9.40. His mind was superior to his education. Investigation showed that he was not demented. He was sent home...
...four contests. Twice in the last five years the series has been decided in four games; since 1926 American League teams (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics) have won 16 out of 19 World Series games. Partly on the strength of these statistics, partly because the Athletics had a supposedly superior pitching staff, partly because the strategies conceived by Philadelphia's 68-year-old manager Cornelius ("Connie Mack") McGillicuddy were expected to prove superior to those of St. Louis' Manager Charles ("Gabby") Street, who celebrated his 49th birthday the day before the first game, bookmakers made the Philadelphia Athletics...
...Josiah voiced ringing confidence that the superior fiscal organization and longer experience of London in handling complex international transactions will keep the City's services and the pound in brisk worldwide demand. 3) "The greatest friend of New York," concluded Sir Josiah, "could not say at the present time that New York's financial dealings with foreign countries have been characterized by a steady, courageous purpose or by intimate and far-seeing knowledge." For the cashing of bills of exchange "on any large scale a very elaborate machine of financial knowledge and financial courage is required, and this...