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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Historical fiction is better right now than it ever has been before," Bernard DeVoto '20, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature stated last night in his concluding address at the New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN HISTORICAL NOVELS PRAISED IN DEVOTO SPEECH | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

...present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics here in Cambridge are adequately supported by endowment, the better it will be for the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISSED OPPORTUNITY | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

Asked about Freshmen prospects, Pete Petersen replied, "present indications are that breast stroke and back stroke look better than last year at this time. but our freestyle and diving are below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peterson Announces Program Of Freshman Merman Meets | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

Many beginners are under the illusion-that waxing is just for experts who want their skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong, as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent backsliding and saving considerable energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS FLOCK TO NORTHLAND . . . . . . . . SNOW VARIES AT SKI CENTERS | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...library-workers, have earnings a little higher than similar labor outside. The satisfaction with which the University regards this situation points to the most serious failing in its labor policy. Harvard feels that so long as its wages are equal to the most liberal wages outside, or a little better, that it is doing its part. Thus the University has no mind of its own on a good labor problem, and accepts the standards set outside regardless of their rightness or wrongness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS WAGE POLICY | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

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