Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brennan, as John Ferguson, it a notable actor. He has the rate gift of acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...
...university which merely teaches men to enjoy the arts and sciences, which creates a class of intellectuals, does not fulfill its complete purpose. Unless the college man rolls up his sleeves and tackles the practical issues around him he is in no position to criticise the man of inferior training who does. This straightforward meeting of the problems of the day is the University's teaching...
...advantages that they deserve. American universities offer too few of such advantages, far fewer than most European universities. Is it not right for an institution with the age and prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
...month later the latter crew wound up its season with a victory over the Yale 1921 eight on the Charles. The losers were inferior in both experience and power. This race was staged as the feature of the annual Invitation Regatta held by the University as part of the program; also the letter's second crew was matched against the Elis B aggregation. Yale, with an advantage of 15 pounds per man, came out the winner, but only by half a length...
...just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do his part well. It is, however, often damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted. What a rude awakening they await! They swagger and boast before the seasoned soldiers of our Allies, who look on with amused tolerance...