Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fierce patriotism that brooks no doubt that Alma Mater is the greatest institution in the world. At Harvard, however, where patriotism is considered a weak emotion, there is on equally studied nonchalance, a determination never to express the slightest belief that any one thing or place is superior to another just because one owns a slight allegiance in one place, or thing...
...Harvard must have some body of raying watchmen to protect University property and it is natural that it be placed in the same department with the janitors and goodies. The flaw in the system is that these watchmen have followed police practice and turned in suspects to their immediate superior; in this case, Mr. Apted. And there has been no consideration given to the obvious fact that an efficient head caretaker will not necessarily be a suitable person to handle student disciplinary problems...
...present administration's stand is certainly far superior to that of previous administrations, but in order to protect ourselves from the danger of being involved in war and its attendant depressions the only way is to stop war itself...
...Cobb's best-selling novel Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3), Columnist Pegler had been attracted by the August 1934 issue, which told the appalling stories of a few of the luckless French soldiers whose Wartime deaths by execution were aimed to teach their comrades proper respect for superior officers...
...last in a definite recovery stage, regarded the present upturn as merely the beginning of the next boom. It saw no harm in getting ahead of the parade, as long as it knew that the parade had started. The spirit of recovery remains considerably superior to its statistics, but the Market was never one to live on bread alone...