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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murals, when finished, could be easily moved about. He then asked himself what paint had had the benefit of most research and chemical improvement. Obviously, automobile-paint. He hired a workshop, made sketches in pen, pencil, paint. Models of every race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded his big brush with auto-paint and started to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...other hand it was known that the State of New York had profited from the heavy transactions. A tax of 2¢ a share on no par stock and 2¢ per $100 of value on par stock, netted New York $4,884,427 in October. Thus can the state build better roads, broader bridges to bear the increasing traffic of U. S. prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...soccer team closed a poor season Saturday morning by losing to Yale-Freshmen, 2 to 0. The Crimson first year men, although they had shown a better record than their opponents, were unable to tally at all, and finished with a record of three wins and four losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1933 SOCCER TEAM LOSES | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard should receive full credit for defeating a team which was supposed to be better than the Cimson. The game was a brilliant one, inwhich a great team won."--Marvin A Stevens, Yale head coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPAPER CRITCS UNITE IN PRAISING FIGHTING SPIRT SHOWN BY HARVARD MEN | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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