Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a pair of veteran guards back again for a nucleus and a group of promising youngsters rapidly rising to positions of reliability, this department of Harvard's gridiron machine is probably better fixed for the impending campaign against the country's best than any of its near relatives...
There was never much doubt as to who would win. It had been suggested that the "beautiful friendship" which Tilden feels for Hunter, his partner in many a doubles match, might tempt him to toss the match. No one knows better than Big Bill how much Little Frank wants to win the national singles...
...Hatfield's offer of the University Theatre for the production of the "Strange Interlude" should win him the sympathy of a large majority of his hitherto moving-picture-going public. Better plays have been written than Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play, but it is hardly surprising that such unreasonable and bigoted pseudo-puritanism on the part of Boston authorities should be met by widespread resentment, manifested not only by indignant letters and editorials in the press, but by such practical offers as Mr. Hat-field...
...this dedication Harvard marks the consummation of the campaign for a larger, better equipped Law School, begun in March, 1926, with an appeal to the American people for funds. As a result of this campaign, a large sum was secured for buildings and land, and with a part of this money the new Langdell Hall was completed...
...conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports such as tennis...