Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home." Then, when that remark received wide publicity, he had said: "It is all a question of intent. . . ." Following that, his men had obtained the indictment of nine California grapemen for advertising that "fine old wine" could be made from their product. Last week both Director Woodcock and his superior, Attorney General Mitchell, shied off all queries as to what they would do about Fruit Industries' advertising, which officials of the company and the company's attorney, onetime Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition Mabel Walker Willebrandt. maintain is within...
...color, costume and bearing, in the lines of some of their ascetic, sensitive faces they were the ones who seemed to be the superior race. Beside them the pallid little Englishmen dressed in the dull sobriety of bank clerks were like subordinate assistants. Even King George in morning coat minus the accustomed white carnation in his buttonhole, was more like a company director than a monarch...
Myrmecologists divide ants into eight series, have listed 6,000 species. Says Maeterlinck: all the higher species have a communistic unselfishness inconceivable to Man, a consequent social discipline superior to any human government. Some ants have organized armies, wage offensive wars; some own slaves; some keep herds of "cattle" (plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats...
...works of a machine are superior, in this case, to the works of man. It is a question if either one is a valuable addition. Football is a boys game: it is not a man's livelihood. All these trappings reduce a team to a Frankenstein constructed for the purpose of crushing other Frankensteins. They aren't necessary elements of any game. An espionage by camera might just as well be carried on in baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher...
...pass by New York University, which threw bad passes consistently, and superior kicking gave Fordham rooters a chance to fire the cannon they had brought along. Fordham...