Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought to myself, "Where is Tiny?" I found Tiny [Thompson] and his ten years of great goal tending passed off in one sentence. I continued to read and I seemed to catch the idea that although the "well-seasoned" Bruins were leading by four points the Rangers were the better team. The "well-seasoned" Bruins (a team playing with six one or two-year major leaguers on its roster) have proved quite conclusively that they are the better team, by beating the Rangers in four "crucial" games, the last knocking them out of a chance for first place...
Franklin Roosevelt's display of pique occurred last week on the first morning of a week-long holiday. Next day in somewhat better humor the President settled down to the tasks of an unusually trying week end. The railroad committee's report arrived and the President studied it at length. He sent to Congress, with a recommendation that it be given "most careful consideration," Hungary's proposal, made last February, to pay off its $1,685,000 Relief Loan in full but without interest. As this week's major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed...
With the opening game of the season less than a week away, Skip Stahley has been rapidly shaping up his Varsity lacrosse team. Taking advantage of the good weather, the stickmen have been able to scrimmage much earlier than usual. As a result the team should make a better showing on its vacation trip than it did last year...
Plans for a large and noisy demonstration behind the scenes on Saturday when 104 "supers", 52 of them Harvard students, will be used in "Aida," were denied last night by John S. Morgan '39, in charge of all the "supers," but he said that better working conditions were being sought...
...next best thing, of course, is watching somebody else do it. This is what makes Cecil DeMille's "The Buccaneer," now at the University, such a thoroughly delightful picture. We have heard that the film is a travesty on history, but it is doubtful if Mr. DeMille could better have satisfied the great American public than with this magnificent piece of nationalism. Dealing with the pirate Jean Lafitte, (Fredric March) and his part in winning the battle of New Orleans, the picture affords a liberal glimpse at the romantic lives of the men without a country. Mr. March turns...