Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lose, or draw, this marks Joe Forecast's swan-song. Never again will the Forecast pen disturb the virgin whiteness of paper. I pass on to bigger, better, and more lucrative fields. Whither matters not--sufficient to say that next year, and the years thereafter (unless Joe, Jr. suddenly turns intelligent) the CRIMSON readers must figure for themselves the outcome of the games...
...make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...movement. The first society was in Connecticut. Now half the United States have similar ones. Coordinating their activities is the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Humanitarian Beers is its secretary. Its aim has been to "enable men, women and children to live happier, healthier and more efficient lives through better understanding and management of the processes of their minds and of the controlling forces in human behavior...
...Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...