Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain has always paid its debts." Marshall wanted to keep Spain from going Communist, a noble motive. But the most frequent argument, and the one which Franco himself is now pushing, is that Spain could be a valuable military "bulwark" in case of war with Russia. It is no better an argument than the others...
Four of the six Crimson golfers scored 76 or better. Bob Matson and Dick O'Keeffe, playing together in the second foursome, both scored 72. Bill Rickenbacker and Herb Mce won their individual matches with 76 and combined to win their best two out of four. Harvard's blanket win was completed by Jack Denton and Sam Seager. They scored individual victories and the third combined...
...varsity lost all those games, but they were to southern colleges that have been on the greens since February, and the scores were better than last year. Nothing is known about the Clark team, except that its coach is an ex-Harvard player, Walter Butler, of the 1947 team...
...consolidated railroads, he saw that his work could be completely wrecked by bad management. What better way was there to insure good management than to place control of all the roads in members of his firm or friends? He had complete contempt for those men who had used railroads as speculative toys, such as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould, and his method was the only way he could make sure that such men would be kept out of railroad management...
Harvard University was the scene the other night of a debate on the question, "Resolved, that the American Revolution was a mistake." A couple of young men from Cambridge University, England, argued that it would have been better all around if America had remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call...