Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dormitory races yesterday were rowed under worse conditions than those which prevailed on Wednesday, and attracted little attention. The racing on the whole was better than on the first day, three bumps being made...
...first of the annual interdormitory bumping races was rowed downstream yesterday afternoon, over the one and three-eighths mile course, finishing just beyond the Newell boathouse. The weather conditions could not have been better for rowing, as the river was smooth, it was cool, and the sun was not shining. One bump was made in the first division and two in the second...
...future is of better augury because of the past which unites with the present in him, and remains ours in what he has done and what he is. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS...
...this idea of excellence, of which so few of the thousands of his hearers had any true conception before they listened to his talk, was the keynote of most that he had to say to them. The course professed to be about Greek art, and certainly nobody was better qualified to illuminate that subject; but it was wonderful to observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek...
...were too apt to think that "something must really be done about this case." But when he wished not to save you, you were always made to feel that your punishment was not greater than you could bear, and that you could make it serve you to something better; for he was one of those who could say, in the verse of another of our lately-departed colleagues...