Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With two such stars as Ada May and Clariborue Foster on a bill, Seniors recovering from divisional, and underclassmen wearied with the reading period, could do no better than drop into the Keith Memorial tonight or tomorrow to see for themselves that stage and musical comedy stars who go on the vaudeville circuit are far from passe...
...Katzenbach's Princeton loyalty is not subtracted from his Harvard loyalty; he may be a better man for being also a good Princeton man. To think anything else is to assume that colleges such as Princeton and Harvard are at war, or that there is a conflict of interest between them, so that the gain of the one must be at the expense of the other...
...More and better reports of amateur and sectional sporting events were furnished. The U. S. is increasingly sport-news-hungry...
...Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made particular reference to Owen D. Young (whose General Electric Co. it credited with controlling National Broadcasting), felt that Chairman Young could not knowingly permit the radio chain to aid in "undermining the interests of the American home and of honest business...
...mere positing of the problem. But the fact remains that time is not the same in one place as in another and that by the immutable statute of Massachusetts it is different at different times of the year. The manifold complexities of the problem indicate that it may be better to simplify the situation, and by a further extension of Puritan dialectic render tenns playing unobjectionable at all times. After all it's a pretty good game and rather more conducive to brotherly love than driving about on a crowded Sunday afternoon highway...