Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another important result of the study of the radio reception is to show completely how unfounded is the popular impression that radio reception is universally poor in summer and good in winter. Generally speaking, reception should be better in the winter months on account of the shortened days and decreased daylight. On the other hand, the sunspots and radio curves show that the increased solar activity actually gave much poorer reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during...
...Holbrook '30 was the main cog in the forward line in the New Year's Eve fray and his clever pass-work was a repeated threat on the Canadian goal. Batchelder showed up better than ever before at defense and fed the forwards continually after breaking up the strong Toronto attacks...
...Manhattan for the regular Christmas convocation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some 2,000 had papers to read on their 15 specialties.* Reading those papers, the mosaic of 1928 developments in pure and applied science, would place the workers on little eminences among their colleagues. Better, it would put them near the Olympians of their profession who attended sessions with them, men like...
...chorus; in burlesque she sang some of Irving Berlin's first songs; when she was 17 Ziegfeld headlined her in the Follies of 1910; two years ago she made her debut as a dramatic actress in Fanny. She had an operation on her hooked nose to make her better looking, but she said; "I'd rather not be beautiful. It's hard to get a line on yourself if you're beautiful." One St. Patrick's Day "Nicky" Arnstein, sought throughout the U. S. for his share in a $5,000,000 bond robbery...
...laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays was mainly brought about by Director Benjamin Christensen who gave a trite plot (heirs looking for money in a millionaire's mansion) better treatment than it deserved...