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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sought the role of a martyr. Mr. Francis has often read my contributions to the Harvard Crimson in which I have emphasized that I seek no early martyrdom and that the Socialist Party is not "idealistic" but very much a bread and butter movement of workers who seek better working and living conditions...

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

Picking any sort of "all" team is in a good many ways a foolish way to waste time, because everybody knows that just because so and so says one player is better than another it doesn't make him actually so. But just the same every one is entitled to his own opinion and in most cases it, is just as liable to be right as the next fellow's all of which means that picking mythical football teams at least isn't an injurious way to waste time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

What a first team backfield that would be! Among them there's not a thing in the game of football that Booth, Marsters, Cagle and Murrel can't do and do it well. You couldn't do a great deal better if you had the whole country as a field to choose from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...linemen there are only about two like Ticknor and Perry whose work in the Stadium has stamped them as distinctly better than their rivals. The others named, and a good many unnamed, performed well and the choice is really a toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Delaware is 78 points better than Yale this way; Delaware 0, Ursinus 0; Ursinus 0, Haverford 0; Haverford 28, Hamilton 0; Hamilton 6, Rochester 0; Rochester 7, Springfield 7; Springfield 7, Brown 6; Brown 13, Princeton 12; Princeton 13, Navy 13; Navy 0, Georgetown 0; Georgetown 14, N. Y. U. 0; N. Y. U. 26, Georgia 19; Georgia 15, Yale 0. And then, of course, Yale beat Army and the army won the war, so you can draw your own conclusions. BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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