Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Neville, of course, it was to be a Christmas spent at home. But no Marine better typifies the service than the present Corps Commandant. A fighting Virginian, aged 59, he was graduated from Annapolis in 1890. He helped capture Guantanamo Bay in the Spanish War and relieve Peking in the Boxer Uprising. He served as a provincial military governor in the Philippines, won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the seizure of Vera Cruz. Through Belleau Wood he led the Fourth Marine Brigade to Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, then on to the Rhine and Coblentz. After...
...President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the ball better, batters would not be able to see it so well...
...Other U. S. institutes and associations are many, include: American Macaroni Manufacturers' Association, American Shovel Institute, Ash Handle Association. Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, Better Bedding Alliance of America, Canadian Newsprint Association (see p. 19), Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, Copper Institute, Corset and Brassiere Association of America...
Pastor Helm's letter of resignation to the council said: "I doubt whether any church in the United States has a better background for the appreciation of the practical significance of the religion of Jesus than has Bethel. The first premise of Christianity and its most perfect synonym is brotherhood. To refuse brotherhood to any Christian is the oldest and most heretical blasphemy conceivable. American Christianity is . . . compromised and enmeshed. . . To refuse church membership to anyone not of the same race is to deny the most obvious teaching of Jesus and to give the ethical sanctions of Christianity to race...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...