Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away from them what they think is theirs, and you'll see the best fighters in the world. The German race is the greatest of our civilization. Compare them with the English and you'll find that in art, in war strategy, in every occupation Germans are superior. I believe Shakespeare himself was of German origin, was he not? Correct me on this. I would like to know...
Because of their superior economic position, their high standard of living, their separate educational system, they had long held a power far exceeding their numbers. They had become part & parcel of the political and social life of the countries of which they were only nominally citizens. As "capitalists," they could scarcely have welcomed the classless, propertyless society which Russia threatens to introduce in those Baltic States, and they would probably be the first to suffer in a hammer-&-sickle regime. Understandably, most Balts chose return to Germany as the lesser of two evils...
...motion picture method, by projecting phrases across the screen according to the movements and pauses of the eyes of a skilled reader, the poor reader is made to pace his eyes so as to acquire the eye movements of the superior reader. The rate of projection of the phrases upon the screen is gradually increased, always keeping just a little ahead of the reader...
Altogether it was an unrelieved week of lost face for the Japanese. A spokesman in Tokyo admitted that the fighting against Russia on the Mongolian border, terminated by a surprise truce on Sept. 16, had been climaxed by a "disastrous, bitter battle." Soviet forces both numerically and mechanically superior to the Japanese had engaged them on the barren Holumbar Plain, devoid of cover of any kind, and whipped them. Admitted casualties: 18,000 killed, wounded, sick...
...Cardinal's funeral procession, ten times ten times ten thousand mourners lined the route. These citizens could count themselves honorary pallbearers of Cardinal Mundelein. For, instead of designating a handful of big names as honorary pallbearers, Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, appointed administrator of the archdiocese after his superior's death, had named Chicago's whole population, 3,500,000 "common men and women who provide the life blood of the city's greatness...