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Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the Varsity's current skein of nine victories in the ten matches since the early southern tour, the team will definitely be the underdog. The Blue squad is stocked with nationally-ranked tournament players, who appear on paper far superior to what the Crimson can offer...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Tennis Squad Takes On Elis In New Haven | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

Nightmare in a Wonderland. In an atmosphere of uncomprehending misery, the platoon is ordered on a reconnaissance patrol on the far side of the island, over the vast peaks of the Watamai Mountains. It is in itself an incident in the war superior to most war fiction, the patrol through a wonderland of grass growing higher than the heads of the men, spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War & No Peace | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...pizzicato was louder than the soloist's. The few peculiar noises which eminted from the violin section did not appear during the Bach work, possibly because of the foundation which the piano provided. All in all, the concert was a great success, a combination of good programming and superior performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Weekend Concerts Held in Sanders | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...worried about the fact that Yale has ripped through Columbia and Princeton this spring and that the Eli times have generally been superior to Harvard...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Bulldog Track Squad Favored Over Varsity | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Unmoved. Another of the boys was in trouble last week-for a brief moment. Former City Councilman Joseph M. Scannell went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court charged with attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Curley's Boys | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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