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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale team as it played Saturday is far superior to any eleven that Harvard has shown so far this year both offensively and defensively. On the attack Yale has the edge merely because of Booth, who is spark, guiding hand, and the executor of the Eli offensive--in fact, he is the offense. Without him it is hard to determine just how the Blue would stack up, since most of the other backs, with the possible exception of Crowley, would rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...merits of this plan are superior to the older method. With every state offering candidates, a competition will be stimulated which will assure a high grade, representative group at Oxford and the choice of any foreign university for the student in his third year makes possible a broader and more cultural education than heretofore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMBASSADORS OF GOOD WILL | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...effect on slave conditions in America, however, as slaves were born faster than they could be transported. It is estimated that about 18,858 settled in Liberia due to the efforts of the Colonization Society before the Civil War. At the present time, however, opportunities for negroes are so superior in the United States to those in Liberia that emigration is negligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Liberia Would Benefit by American Intervention," Declares R. P. Strong | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

...loth Federal Reserve District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home at Madeline Island, Lake Superior, where plies his yacht. In running his business he has one unusual method: when he finds a good man he immediately gives him a long-term contract, sometimes for as long as 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Transamerica into Telephones | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Coach Cannell, commenting on the decisive score, was especially impressed with the playing of the Green line. He attributed the final result of the game to the greater man power, from end to end, to his superior reserves, and to the brilliant execution and development of his backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH GETS READY FOR GAME WITH HARVARD | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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