Word: better
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Behind his amiable poker-face-and he is one of the better poker players of Des Moines and Manhattan-young Mr. Cowles masks his dynamic qualities. When asked "what's up?" he replies casually: "Not much." Next day, he is apt to buy a newspaper or an airplane...
...since it would obviously be impossible for him to follow every move of the Conference, even if he desired to do so, one man he could select who would probably be near the centre of activity at all times. For such a cynosure, a stranger might have done no better than to choose Bishop Francis John McConnell* of Pittsburgh, who recently returned from Palestine after distinguishing himself at the International Missionary Council (TIME, April...
...many purposes rubber from the guayule shrub is better than tree rubber, announced the U. S. Bureau of Standards last week after long research with chemists of the Intercontinental Rubber Co. This company (Charles Hamilton Sabin, chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., is also its chairman) has been cultivating this shrub (the only shrub that so far has been commercialized) in Mexico, California, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. Thomas Alva Edison has an experimental farm in Florida. Others work in Texas. The shrub thrives in arid regions, and can be cultivated and harvested by machines. Last year guayule shrubs yielded...
Thus far the May Reading Period has flowed along with an untroubled course, and in general without the opposition and many of the defects that characterized its initial employment. Evidently all the participants have extracted something helpful from the January experiment, for this spring assignments are better proportioned, students less perplexed as to the exact intent of the Period, and the Union and Widener more completely furnished with the stuff by which examinations are passed...
Against the powerful batters of the Princetonian Saturday the ambidextrous moundsman of the CRIMSON fought his way to a startling five to five victory. Ably backed by his fighting team he pitched only as well as his Princetonian opponent who also had the better end of a five run tie. Several times during the game the reversible battery reversed itself with a creditable show of technique and flaming Crimson...