Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brash ones died. Colosimo and O'Banion had been too brash. So was Hymie Weiss. Weiss was shot down several months later in front of the Holy Name Cathedral on Superior Street. Others died in doorways, in telephone booths, in alleys, in bed, at the wheels of their expensive cars. In the decade there were 4,242 homicides on the blotter of the Chicago police alone, most of them unsolved. But nobody shot Capone...
...last 76 pages, covering the Sino-Japanese war, hardly do more than scratch the surface of the contemporary Chinese scene. But Moment in Peking, far superior to Author Lin's whimsical The Importance of Living, may well become the classic background novel of modern China...
...Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
...fact the margin of victory revolved on the superior and sensational kicking of Princeton's Bob Peters, who kept the Harvard offense beautifully boxed with coffin corner down deep in Crimson territory...
Although they held the superior Tiger soccer team scoreless for entire first half, a fighting team of Crimson booters, led by goalie Jack Pension and left half Charley d'Autroment, were unable to prevent the Princeton team from scoring once in each of the last two frames to win, 2 to 0, at Tiger town Saturday morning...