Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contents of TIME between covers continues to be the best reading in the country and the only criticism I make is the observation that, having chronic insomnia, I have formed the habit of perusing the magazine during wakeful hours, and it is far from a soporific and I need a mental sedative rather than a mental stimulant. Unless you can insert some poetry between advertisements I shall have to find a substitute for TIME for night reading. The only poetry I can comprehend is limericks. Perhaps you will suggest some particularly stupid magazine guaranteed to produce sleep...
...interest" seems to be hardly sufficient reason. Life-expectation tables can have little bearing on the rate, as such subscriptions would be relatively few; nor has the life subscriber an assurance that TIME will not change its policy, cease publication, merge with another. There remains also the advertiser, whose best assurance of sustained reader-interest is the addition or renewal of annual (or possibly biennial or triennal) subscriptions...
...southpaw Nekola, reputed to be the best pitcher in college circles with ten victories and no defeats to his credit, may start, but it is more probable that Hebert, a right hander, will try to repeat his feat of last week. The University mentor will place B. H. Ticknor '31 in the sinister garden regardless of Coach Barry's selection...
...Crimson defensive will be greatly strengthened this afternoon when B. H. Bassett '31 one of the best ground coverers in Harvard baseball returns to his position in centerfield. He will in all probability, lead off. J. D. Dudley '81 will once more do the backstop work. The rest of the Harvard lineup remains intact for today's crucial clash...
Harvard and Yale are happy to welcome the Englishmen again. We trust that the exchange of ideas which will inevitably take place will convince the visitors that all true Americans desire to maintain the best of cordial relations between the two countries. Those who have ridiculed the alleged advantages of such contests from this point of view would do well to exclude from their lists the Oxford-Cambridge invasion. There is nothing quite like it in the athletic relations of the two countries. This is no Ryder Cup team bent only on victory...