Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly worth a 90-mile drive to and from Fitton Field, Worcester, yesterday afternoon to find out just why big league baseballers are so much better than collegiates. The pros looked not much better in the field, not much better with the bat, and not much trickler. In fact, the Boston Red Sox were beaten 3-2 by Holy Cross...
...Faculty program committee, and to President Conant that such a variety and excellence can be found in the group. More significant, however that the quality of these new Fellows, is the at first startling fact that Harvard has added an admitted Communist to its staff. But Granville Hicks is better known as a scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done...
Most important consideration of all is that an organization like the Traffic Research Bureau which is directly concerned with the public welfare should function as efficiently as possible. If Yale and New Haven can offer more adequate facilities, and the migration indicates that they can, this object is better attained. Undoubtedly, one important gain is closer proximity to New York City, where several of the Bureau's directors do much of their work, and the newspapers of which have greater publicity value than do Boston's Regrets there must certainly be in Harvard, but mutterings of foul play or infidelity...
...were placed on probation until the end of the year, and a sizeable group were on disciplinary pro until this mid-years. The ones punished were not necessarily the most guilty. They were the ones caught. The University treats riots seriously, and the sooner the undergraduates learn this the better...
...DARK COMMAND-W. R. Burnett -Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel...