Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year's individuals Captain Adam Foster advanced as far as the semi-finals before being beaten. In that 1947 series, Adam, elder brother of Henry and Hugh, turned in one of the better performances of the tournament when be eliminated the defending champion, MeGill's Pete Landry, in the quarter finals...
Notheastern took complete charge of the second period, but the Crimson was faster and better organized in the final stanza. At 9:34 Dave Abbot took a pass from Tom Moseley, beating Howell from six feet out, but that was the only time the varsity could score...
...striving to find himself, and the, unreal Jenny, or Jennifer Jones, who becomes his inspiration. He meets her first in Central Park, notes her pre-World. War costume and later discovers the newspaper she is clutching dates from the turn of the century. As he grows to know her better, the artist becomes more wary of the ethereal quality of his friend and there are several good scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny makes Cotton famous, but the girl, now lost, matters...
...fiction pieces in the issue, "The Gooks" seemed a better job than Dennis Fodor's dialogue story. The former is a fine study of its three soldier principals, with restrained dialogue and subtle development; the latter is too glib, too flashy in dialogue without the insights and basings necessary for a competent story. This comparison is not intentional nor malicious, but successive reading of the two stories brings out rather sharply that what is good in one is the chief failing of the other...
Coach Jimmy Reed's wrestlers were more adept, more deliberate, and generally in better condition than their opponents. They were, in short, better wrestlers. For example, Dave Poor, who best Dave Smith at 128 pounds, has lost only once in four years of dual meet competition...