Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope sheet" indicates...
...prose it is even easier Hardy, of course, would begin, and we might follow him with Doughty (also in line for his poetry) Conrad, and W. H. Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
...Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free State Senate since its origin. Resigned last month in favor of the easier Riviera, he will be missed for his infrequent but shrewd comment on political matters-he, the poet-creamer...
...decision to examine candidates from the public high schools only on their last year of preparatory work, Princeton makes easier the selection of a more cosmopolitan body. The fact that very few public schools even moderately distant from the Atlantic sea-board prepare directly for the College Board examinations has frequently discriminated against the entrance of students from these institutions into Eastern universities; and his device of Princeton's like the "first seventh" rule at Harvard, is a step towards giving them an equal chance with the graduates of more experienced Eastern schools...