Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Flynn '19, who was taken up from the second team. Flynn has been playing tackle on the second team all season and his unusual work there has caused his promotion. Although Flynn has been at tackle, it is intended to try him out at centre, as he is better adapted physically to that position...
...refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many of the purely descriptive passages contain figures which are unquestionably striking. But Mr. Gowdy has not, usually, carried suggestive force beyond the realm...
...seldom found in modern poetry of any sort. But Mr. Murray is the least skilled of the Monthly's versifiers. Only the persistent reader succeeds in ploughing through the obscuitities of his first sonnet; and even he cannot help feeling at the end that the whole business would better have been finished off in fourteen lines instead of 28--doubts in the octave, triumphant answer in the sestet, for instance...
Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, said in commenting on the Cornell game of last Saturday, that Cornell was unquestionably a better team than she showed herself...
...Harvard has a better kicking game than Yale, and Princeton's is a shade better than Harvard's. The Crimson and the Blue are both proficient in fundamentals, but Harvard's handling of the ball was better on Saturday than anything Yale or Princeton have done...