Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposing team. For a man whose entire life is centered on his team, Hal Ulen took the defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community may well be proud of. His thoughts in defeat did not consist of balancing the half-dozen if's of the meet, rather did he praise the men on his team who fought to the last for him and plan to build up for the future the men who failed him to some extent...
...trouble with the post-war settlement, according to Buck, was that it gave the Negro too great a measure of political freedom, rather than economic opportunity. "Emancipation was a gift that the Negro could not appreciate," Buck said, "and he had neither the morale of freedom nor the feeling that it should be cherished...
White superiority, or rather the widespread belief in it, is the permanent base on which the question of the Negro's status rests. "Once people realize the insolubility of the equality problem, then they will learn to live with...
...himself, side-stepping Radcliffe cross-traffic, gathered living art from the world over and than went out of its way to keep anyone from seeing it. If Vag had been in a rational frame of mind he would have remembered that the Spirit of Sun Vat Sen outside Boylston rather exploded this theory, but he was, as the careful reader has already noted, in an irrational frame of mind...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...