Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheever Cowdin, a better polo player (8 goal handicap) than Fred Harvey, vice president and director of Blair & Co., famed investment bankers...
President William S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motors has been devising more and better ways of helping his dealers sell Chevrolets. Dealers have cooperated finely. But they, and he, wanted more dealers' helps. So President H. T. Ewald of Campbell-Ewald Co., Chevrolet's able advertising agency, opened a Chevrolet salesroom in Detroit on his own account and last week with his sleeves figuratively rolled up was operating "a proving ground to test actual merchandizing problems . . . so the agency can grasp from experience the situations in which automobile dealers become involved. . . . We don't expect to have model...
...years ago Mr. Kennedy, in his mid 30's, took a better business position. With the aid of rich friends he bought from British investors control of FBO (Film...
...women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...
While students who come to Harvard often find the problem of adjustment to strange conditions extremely difficult, a scarcely less numerous body, better prepared for college work, find themselves seriously disappointed in their expectations of college by the large proportion of elementary work which occupies their Freshman year. The outstanding problems of the first year at Harvard are thus of a twofold nature: the difficulty of abrupt transition for the immature or ill prepared student, and the lack of inspiration and of insight into his future work offered the more advanced student. While neither of these problems can be entirely...