Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other first basemen are Lewis, Jaynes, and Kendall. Lewis and Jaynes have as yet done so little work that criticism would be unfair. Of Clark and Kendall the former seems to be doing the better work. Both are hard workers, though Kendall shows a tendency to carelessness...
...vacancy at shortstop will probably prove hardest to fill. Devens, Coolidge and George are the only candidates. Coolidge fields well and plays a heady game, but is weak in batting. Devens does not field so well but bats better. Of George, little can be said, as he is working with the pitchers. Some of the men now trying for second and third will later be available, and the outcome cannot be predicted...
...have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though of the future in his desires, must be of the present in his deeds. In other words, expediency is better than idealism. This is a false view to hold, however; party lines are rapidly dissolving in these days, and no party dares claim support merely as a party. The time has come for independent action, and this can best be had by each man working for the best, regardless...
...pleasure," and he never missed the Sunday concerts conducted by Lamourdux. His charming conversation was another prominent characteristic and for fifteen years he received at his house on Tuesday evenings all the best poets of our time, who came to enjoy his strong and witty conversation. He was always better understood on such occasions than in his written prose, and this fact irritated him not a little. He always wrote, even the lectures he delivered in Belgium and England, in a very rich but difficult prose which gave him the reputation of being obscure...
...Mandolin Club has been having rehearsals regularly since Christmas. It has excellent material, is the furthest advanced of the three clubs and is playing in better form than did last year's club at this time. The officers are: President, G. H. Dowse; treasurer, N. C. Foot; leader, H. P. Brown. The members...