Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye is superior to both Cain and Hemingway...
...making films that television can afford. So far, except for a few shorts, the only films being specially made for television are commercials, which often add a new dimension of irritation to radio advertising. In a typical TV plug, the camera peers fixedly at a chart, showing the superior cushion effect of Firestone tires. Or it may ogle a picturesque blonde, pointing out the virtues of a refrigerator. Rarely has television hit on a first-class formula, like Lucky Strike's animated marching battalions of cigarettes...
Unfortunately Feathers?a night-lighted study of bums in Central Park?was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past...
...northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
Mexico's Master. Lorencez saw nothing but ragged Mexican, scouts ducking over the brown hills ahead. "We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality, and in elevation of feeling," he wrote the French War Minister, "that I beg Your Excellency to be so good as to inform the Emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico...