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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Dick Harlow it was a better opening game performance than his last two, his boys charging and tackling harder, and he at least, is sufficiently pleased, and he's the doctor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON VICTORY OVER SPRINGFIELD SATISFIES COACH | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Mebbe while you're at it you better include the sorghum lickers too as associate members. Theys a lot of them round here that got nitiated in that art long as Hank Smith was runnin his sorghum mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Cheyenne in 25 hr. 25 min. hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Foxy Grandpa | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor pleasure, and to fill out his days with reading that had better been done in term time, is unfair to the student. And it is unfair in two ways, since it imposes on his time in the summer, and it causes him to lose much of the genuine pleasure which he might get from this reading if he were to have adequate time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIBLE AND SHAKESPEARE EXAMS | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

...bigger and better band with a new Drum Major will march onto the field for Saturday's game with Springfield, Boasting 35 new members it has been rehearsing under its Drillmaster, William Tabler, from the School of Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANSFIELD WILL TWIRL BAND BATON FOR SPRINGFIELD TILT | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

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