Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...adverse score must not be taken to show that Yale was in general inferior to Princeton. The defense, though not evenly balanced in strength on both sides of the line, was sufficient to prevent substantial gains by Princeton in rushing. The offense showed great speed, strength and team-work, and was at times invincible. Hogan, Bloomer, Shevlin and Kinney were used to advance the ball almost as frequently as the backs, and proved that Yale's offensive game is versatile as well as powerful. With the fault of fumbling eradicated, the Yale eleven is likely to prove not far inferior...
...fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson as the writer of "the burning-glass style." He admitted that several...
...match was closely contested and was a tie after the sixteenth hole. The seventeenth was halved in four, and Egan won the eighteenth and deciding hole in four to seven. The total number of strokes of both men was 82. Both players drove off well, but Egan was slightly inferior to Chick in approaching. Chick, however, was very weak on the putting green and it was chiefly this weakness which lost him the match...
...Andover team, however, is also weak in batting, and seems to be in other respects somewhat inferior to last year's team. Of the seven games played this spring, Andover has lost six, most of them, however, to strong college teams...
...less spirit than they have in previous games, for when a victory was practically assured, the men made little effort to increase the score, with the result that the game was the slowest played by the team this year. The batting was again most unsatisfactory. Against a pitcher much inferior to Stillman, the team aggregated two less hits than their opponents, and were generally unable to hit at the opportune moment. One successful bunt was made. Although not spirited, the work of the men in the infield was fairly accurate, as is signified by two runs as against ten hits...