Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When new boards and positions creep into an organization, they are all too likely to create a bureaucratic maze of red tape and impede rather than facilitate smooth functioning. The New Deal may be justly criticized for an unfortunate tangling of bureaus, but certain of the new boards of the government are equally as justly to be praised, as necessary expansions in a widening sphere. Harvard's new creation of a Dean of the University may also be praised as a justified expansion of administrative agencies...
...game was won by individual, rather than by team performance. Honors go to Dem Lloyd at center, whose sinking of a pass-out by Walt Whittaker from behind the net nullified an early Cambridge lead midway in the first stanza. It was the only assist of the game. After 37 seconds of the second period, Lloyd again split the Cambridge defense, and placed Harvard in the lead...
Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...Clark Hodder would say was, "we deserved to win." But Dewey added, "You can't blame the boys, it's rather a lack of practice that has hampered us. They just haven't had the opportunity to improve." Also the loss of Ayres, first string center due to sickness, and four others who are on probation has made the coaching problem more difficult...
...lawyer of today must bring to bear the techniques of other sciences," said Dean Landis, "but the problem of integrating law with other branches of knowledge must occur in the teaching of law itself rather than be hoped for as a resultant of an intermittent contact with such subject matters...