Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the fact that on paper Europe's probable entrants in the 5,000 and 10,000 metre races have better records than the American records at the corresponding distances, the team from the United States should contain potential point winners, though it lacks outstanding stars, Coach Farerll believes...
...metre event there will probably be Vennstrom of Sweden, rated at 15.3 seconds, and Burghley and Gaby of England, both of whom have done 15 seconds flat or better. Sempe of France, and Steinhardt of Germany are not quite so fast as the other three but under the pressure of Olympic competition, might step into the lead. America, however, has unquestionably better material. Wells of Dartmouth and Ring of the New York Athletic Club with Werner of the Illinois Athletic Club and Dye of California can all of them turn in stellar performances, while there is any number of good...
...present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting athletic exercises, is sufficient to swing the scales in its favor. It is the ultimate argument for bigger stadia, better athletes, and more publicity...
...placed in Europe is not imperialistic. It is a form of aggressive and armed commercialism. Foreign nations, forbidden themselves to interfere, have sneered at what they choose to call a hypocritical, forceful exploitation of weaker nations by America in her role as the Monarchy of Big Business. "It is better for peoples to make their own mistakes," said the President, but the South American countries are not allowed the opportunity when the error can affect the enterprises of men from this country...
...Remus should have been electrocuted, but if his acquittal produces in Ohio and elsewhere a substantial impulse toward better criminal procedure, he will in spite of himself have done something to counterbalance the blow which he placed on the fair name of Cincinnati...