Word: bested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting was arranged by H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education especially to consider in what way Harvard can best cooperate actively with the Foundation in carrying out its plans...
...gambling casino in a palace near Nice, that he was licensed to conduct all forms of gambling, that his casino would be ten times as large as the one at Monte Carlo, would have a room containing 42 tables, seating 600 players. Said he: "My announcement is the best answer to reports undoubtedly instigated by jealous rival casinos and broadcasted last summer that the palace would be turned into an automobile garage...
...Gates last week gave his congregation jovial news. Said he: "Saints are everywhere. Everyone here is a saint. In visiting prisons I find saints. A saint is anybody in the world trying to do the best he can with the help...
Sample epigrams: "Jealousy and love are both instinctive emotions, but religion has decreed that jealousy is a virtuous emotion to which the community ought to lend support, while love is at best excusable...
...those who want the physique essential to varsity football there is always the outlet of intramural or class athletics. The gifted souls will find their way into the varsity line-ups, despite physical handicaps. Class football seems the best medium for athletic expression for the light weights, because it emphasizes what little attention we now pay to the ideal of "sport for sport's sake" and does not add fuel to the flames which burn at the altar of the God of football. The Yale News