Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much better case is made against standardization as applied to the American short story, perhaps because this is more closely allied to the author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters...
...Perkins Jr. '31 by a quarter of a length, over the mile course in the basin. Perkins' crew was in second place by slightly over a length, with water just showing between it and the third boat. It was a close battle between the three crews, but the better coordination of the winning eight, composed of six Sophomores, one Junior, and one Senior, was the deciding factor...
Although the University team outplayed its opponents for the better part of the game yesterday afternoon, it was able to do no better than equal the one goal lead which Technology gained in the first minute of the opening period when Veliez, of the visitors, pushed the ball into the Harvard net. The Crimson's lone count came in the third period after H. H. Broad bent '32 had broken through the Technology defense to score...
...Housing Plan we have heard much. We know what it means for education in the narrower sense. It means closer association between teachers and students, a more efficient organization and working of the tutorial system, a better provision of libraries and reading facilities. It will immensely improve and humanize the material surroundings of the undergraduates, in the same way as the Freshman Dormitory system has done for the entering class...
Frankly, Professor Rogers prefers the active man, the man in the vanguard, who drops shibboleths for living principles: the one who in other words, if not better, is at least different. Liberalism, being essentially a sort of seeking the golden megs, is not calculated to inspire a young man sufficiently to bring out in him that highest of all qualities which Professor Rogers' insight has discovered and his eloquence has set forth...