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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore bought my Latin Psalms for the sake of N. B. C. and then one evening while listening to the usual rodomontado of my excellent Alois Havrilla (who still loves me though he had been obliged to repeat the same nonsense about my superior qualifications for years and years and years) I idly looked at the back page of my Psalms--which was of course the front page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hendrik Wiltem Van Loon Sees Future Harvard as Great Fortress of Learning | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...most that one can gather is that the Chefs de cellule of a certain area themselves form a sort of superior cellule which has another Chef who again reports to and takes his orders from somebody higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Red, White & Cellule | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...legs Vatican officials declared that it might soon be necessary to carry the Father wherever he goes. Chief reason for the current decline in his health, they pointed out, is the civil war in Spain, on which Papal Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli has daily conferred with his superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Things on Earth | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...with Jackson, where "they all drank cider." The People, Yes is a 286-page volume in which no such signs of aloofness are apparent. As Sandburg's most ambitious poetic venture, it has little in common with the fragmentary, glancing, impressionist verses that won him his reputation, stands superior to them in originality and wit. One of the chief critical charges brought against Sandburg has been that he lacked an integrated philosophy that would guide his writing, that his poems have too frequently been mere expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...typical of the travelers who found intellectual stimulation abroad, brought back food for speculation that quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior old aristocrat who still bemoaned the lack of a U. S. literature when Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau were at the peaks of performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critic's Garland | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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