Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
...unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...
...inaugural sermon from Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key) rather than scripture. "Wilder says that a revival of religion must be accompanied by a revival of rhetoric. . . . The public finds it difficult to forgive Arnold Bennett for writing trash when he is capable of much better work...
Cardinal O'Connell is a scholar, a great organizer,* a most understanding man. None knows better than he that, while his Church is the largest single religious unit in the U.S., the combined Protestant bodies are far more numerous...
...custom of singing carols had a definite Christian origin. Early Franciscan friars, strolling through Italy, put the tale of the birth of the Babe into homely ballad form, the better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world...