Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to the exodus of instructors, Professor Sorokin says "the better scholars have better chances to receive offers from outside and when they are convinced that the situation after three or five years would be cut down at Harvard, they naturally go to other institutions. Less capable scholars have much less chance to receive an offer and respectively they would remain with us and step by step would supplement more and more the better scholars...
...addition, in several departments the exodus of the better and more mature scholars this spring happens to be so great that a considerable part of the tutoring next year will have to be done by new and less experienced tutors, This means that they would be getting their experience at the expense of their tutees, and would be sharpening their teeth on their brains...
...squad swept the singles with the loss of but one match. The lone Crimson individual triumph was scored by Homer Peabody, the No. 3 man, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. In the doubles the Barnabymen fared better, taking two out of three points...
Houses ruled that the Navy could buy no more foreign canned beef-after Mr. Roosevelt had stung Western Congressmen last week by declaring that the Argentine brand was better than the U. S. brand...
...Communists were produced by the Dies Committee. They apparently existed only in the vast credulousness of some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize something called American Nationalists, Inc., which he endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George...