Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the 70 units competed, they met in Manhattan's Mecca Temple. There they spent the better part of a day determining that the Concordia Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was the best Class A chorus of all. Liederkranz of Scranton, near neighbors to the Wilkes-Barrians, won second prize. Class B Winners were the B. & O. Glee Club of Baltimore and Ottawa Temple Choir...
...declared the winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than...
Many members of the class have never even seen the candidates and often see them for the first time on Class Day. The poems of winners are printed in the Senior Album and are read at the Class Day exercises. Why should future classes continue to elect blindly when better talent, perhaps not so well known is in the class...
...longer may the sage of Sewickley ruh his hands and gloat over the Bulldog as he loses his grip. We have demonstrated our ability to apply mathematical formulae to the science of the diamond, while exhorting our team-mates with quotations from the scriptures and the classics to play better ball. Harvard's bitter chalico may perhaps be sweetened by her realization that she must adhere more rigidly to that musty proverb that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." --Yale News...
Cushman, who has been rowing starboard all spring, is not quite as easy in the new position as some of the others but he is a good oarsman and if he can adapt himself to the other side of the boat he may show up better in the future. Neither Swaim nor Watts have figured much during the last week since both are known quantities and Coach Brown is now more interested in letting the unknown men prove their worth...