Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...police methods before the liberation in 1945 . . . And let us be frank about it; all Orientals are alike in their contempt for human life and dignity. They are cruel where we have pity; they are brutal where we show compassion; they are ingratiating to those they fear or think superior, but merciless with the weak or inferior who fall into their hands...
...York. A Manhattan judge decided that since one Alan Herbert lives in "an expensive environment," and his divorced wife is a "lady of superior breeding," the ex-husband must provide for the college education of his two daughters; everyone in their set takes college education "as a matter of course...
...Turner, a Fort William policeman, was patrolling his beat on the Lake Superior waterfront when the propeller of a passing ship stunned a fish and knocked it to the surface. A seagull swooped down, grabbed the fish, then dropped it on the dockside at Turner's feet. It was a 2½-lb. pickerel...
...lessons of World War II, generally agreed that the best weapon against a tank is another tank. Last week, in Korea, Russian-made T-34 medium tanks were still spearheading the Communist drive southward. So far, the U.S. had no tank in the Korean fighting that was clearly superior to the T-345. Until the new tanks arrive (some are on the way), U.S. troops will have to rely largely on less effective weapons to stop the T-34s. Most of these weapons are not new. None of them is a complete tank defense weapon in itself; their effectiveness depends...
...disease reduced the Maoris almost to extinction. In 1881 Dr. Alfred K. Newman, another member of Parliament, wrote: "Taking all things into consideration, the disappearance of the race is scarcely a subject for regret. They are dying out in a quick, easy way, and are being supplanted by a superior race...