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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tester | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Died. Judge Walter Peter ("Wallie") Steffen, 50, of Cook County, Ill.'s Superior Court, famed University of Chicago All-America quarterback (1907-08) and Carnegie Tech Coach (1914-32); after long illness; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...would be no solution to cut down our educational facilities. Since we are able to accomodate many times more students than the foreign universities, it would be wise for the United States to make the best possible use of its superior facilities. The aches and pains of the last few decades come from the fact that a profligate selection of students has dragged the institutions of learning down to the lowest common denominator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR ASSEMBLY-BELT EDUCATION | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

...film is well photographed, well acted, and the adaptation of Charles Francis Coe's story, while it retains little of the original, is certainly a superior bit of craftsmanship. But with all this it misses fire somewhere along the way; and it is difficult for the reviewer to tell just where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

Boasting records superior to those of their Blue opponents, the Varsity and Freshman fencing teams will meet Yale at New Haven this afternoon in the last meet of the season before the Intercollegiates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Freshman Blade Wielders Meet Elis Today | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

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