Word: betters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present the group is expanding the length, or "arc" of the building which houses the apparatus. The increased dimensions will better accomodate the study of beams of particles coming from the atom smasher, commented Livingston...
Those advantages, according to Sullivan, executive of a Boston coal company, include better community relations, financial income, better groundskeeping equipment, and nationwide circulation of the Harvard name "in connection with a civic project." He plans for national television coverage of seven games...
...comeback decision over Penn and Columbia, following a crushing 18-51 loss to Brown, was fairly impressive, however. Competing against Penn's Ernest Tracy and Roy Rissinger, two of the East's better runners, the varsity rose to the occasion and whipped the Quakers, 23 to 43. Columbia trailed with 74. Fitzgerald, after coming in 13th against the Bruins, rallied for a fine second-place showing and almost caught Tracy with a stirring last-mile charge...
...outcome of a soccer game is always in doubt, and the better team does not necessarily win. All it takes to score a goal is the one big play, by an individual in a split second. One isolated effort can ruin a team that completely dominates play the rest of the time. Inside John Hedreen scored after 3:10 had gone by in the Yale game on a fine, alert shot that evaded Bulldog goalie Andy Block. The Elis fought the Crimson on equal terms in the second period and were in control for the last two periods...
...wasn't sick, he explained to his roommate, "As it happens, I've never felt better. Each day, for the past two years, I have told myself to do something daring; but Cambridge seems to stifle me. For instance, four days ago, when I played checkers, I planned to use a decisive attack. I decided to get all my kings out of the back row, and move my men in sort of a phalanx. But I didn't know...