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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second place to Eric Cutler that Gibbons gained was the crucial tally of the meet, for before the 440 Brown had scored 35 points, needing only a three-point second place to clinch the contest with the required 38. If Powers had won, if Crimson sprinters had placed better, if our breastrokers had been stronger--in other words if Harvard had finished one place better in any event to secure that precious single counter, the score would have been 38-37 for the Ulenmen, for the seven-point free-style relay fell to Harvard, too late...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Varsity Hoopmen Snowed Under 55-31 by Superior Indians; Brown Edges Tankmen 38-37; Wrestlers Smudge Tufts 34-0 | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

...recently, has nosed out Phil Walker and Roger Wilcox for the hotly contested No. 2 breastroke post. Cutler and Frannie Powers will probably swim the 220 together, for Ulen must garner every point possible before the slaughter begins in the back and breast strokes. Although he can put a better 400 relay on the mark than can Brown, Harvard's saturnine sage does not want the seven-point last event to decide the meet, preferring, if he can, to gain enough tallies by seconds and thirds and by a possible six points in the quarter to clinch the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Tangle With Indians; Swimmers Meet Strong Bruin Natators | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...dole out their dismal reading lists for the "C" man as well as for the honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent on the course reading itself. Then, in the words of former Dean Pound on the problem, it will no longer be a question of "the blind leading the blind"; the battered tutoring schools will have quit the ring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLASTIC SPARRING | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...Good Old Days Were Better...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...Zogs) as though it had been yesterday. There they were, all three of them. All dressed in identical black dresses, with identical gold shoes and identical orchid orchids, all chattering merrily away to one another in sign talk. (This is getting pretty close to lose majeste; perhaps we'd better go on to something else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

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