Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has a wonderful pair of ends in Barres and Hickok, one of the best tandems that Charley Comerford has produced. The line from tackle to tackle has made steady progress under Adam Walsh, the former Notre Dame center and captain. Marvin Stevens undoubtedly is a better head coach than he was last year, but he has been sorely beset by the developments which have made Albie Booth such an all-important factor in making the Elis' movements towards opponents' goal lines...
...life of the wounded bandit. Minnie cheats and wins. But in the last act Rance cheats too. So that Johnson is captured and is about to be lynched when Minnie dashes up on horseback, pleads for him so tenderly that they are allowed to set out together toward a better life...
...Anthony H. G. Fokker (airplanes); Charles E. Hires (root beer); Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers); President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co.; President Ernst Richard Behrend of Hammermill Paper Co.; Treasurer Ezra Hershey (chocolate); President Francis Albert Countway of Lever Bros. Co. (soap); President Stanley L. Metcalf of Better Brushes, Inc.; President R. C. Norberg of Willard Storage Battery Co.; President Henry C. Osborn of American Multigraph Sales Co.; President Stanley Adams Sweet of Sweet-Orr & Co., Inc. (overalls); President George Matthew Verity of American Rolling Mill Co. (iron); William Wrigley...
...Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). From 1906 to 1928 Century's circulation had dropped from 150,000 to 22,000. Last week, undismayed by the swan song of the quarterly Edinburgh Review (that "modern readers are not willing to wait a quarter of a year" [TIME, Oct. 28]) and in the Review...
Science is always a lap ahead of popular belief. Newton and Darwin are today high priests of truth to the man in the street. Materialism, once a scientific theory, is now the fatalistic creed of thousands. But materialism, says atom-wise, germ-conscious Haldane,"is nothing better than a superstition, on the same level as a belief in witches and devils...