Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the autocrat's usual contempt for criticism Governor Curley has forced through the appointment of Arthur Baker as judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Even a hardy political horse-trader like President Roosevelt should take off his hat to his Boston understudy who has exchanged with a member of his own executive council one of the highest judicial posts in the Commonwealth in return for the failure to vote on an important appointment...
...jealous and unreliable. The suspicious Directory in Paris hampered his activities. He was outnumbered by the Austrians and the Piedmontese. Moreover, his bride of 17 days, a onetime aristocrat, did not answer his letters. In less than four months Napoleon had virtually driven the Austrians from Italy, defeated superior forces, been hailed as a liberator, transformed his army from gangs of plunderers to skilled, enthusiastic fighting units, won the esteem of rivals, conducted one of the most significant military exploits in history...
...nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even if the title is clever. Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" is a poetic dramatization of the underworld as it looks to our Mr. Anderson; a very touching and quite superior play...
...reason the League now is a reality is because there has been behind it the British Navy. Our superior sea power has not been transferred to the League; nevertheless, it has lain behind it and invested every debate and decision at Geneva with a gravity and significance which otherwise it could not have possessed...
...second quarter Eliot continued its superior play and Edward D. Fullerton, Jr. '37 added six more points to the Eliot total. Waters added the point. Late in the same period a Leverett pass was snagged by the Eliot team, which proceeded to make two successful passes of their own, the last of which was caught by Carl R. Comstock, Jr. '36, who raced fifteen yards to finish the Eliot House scoring...