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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever may be the official attitude it is encouraging that there should be a strong undergraduate feeling against this spirit of "bigger and better anything". With such an attitude of the greatest good for the greatest number, it is quite probable that the minor sports, instead of becoming crushed by the more spectacular major athletics, will be afforded a well deserved opportunity to expand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINORS AND MAJORS | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

...consideration of the powerful threats with which the library officials are armed, it is a rather lame excuse to say it is impossible to force the return of books. As for the lost books, they should either have a system of preventing this unfortunate event or else make better provisions for replacement. It would be interesting to see some statistics on the percentage of books missing out of the total asked for at the Delivery Desk. R. L. Richards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

...save the telephone companies money and to serve better those communities which have both the new dial and the old manual telephone service, Bell Telephone Laboratories invented a device which saves time and reduces errors on calls from dial to manual instruments. Last week the device was demonstrated in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed "sundry" with "money." The third did better, rhyming "money" with "sunny." The fifth and final stanza, typical of the rest, read as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. P. Antic | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard line withstood the onslaughts of the flashy Eli backfield better than was expected. Parker's broken field running and Crowley's scoring punches were the only Blue attacks which punctured the Crimson defense. The performance of the Harvard ends, W. C. Barton '33 and H. G. Reisner, Jr. '33, and that of I. B. Hardy, Jr. '33 and fullback chiefly marked the Harvard play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE FRESHMEN TURN BACK HARVARD OUTFIT | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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