Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtain work of various kinds during July, August and September, but the ordinary summer job has little or no educational value . . . If it is a case of necessity, any work is justified, but not otherwise. By carefully planning his vacation program almost any enterprising young man can do far better. He can fill the whole or part of his summers with activities which, while they may not bring him immediate financial returns, will round out his experience. He will thus acquire a real asset--for other business men doubtless think as does the one quoted...
From the opening of the contest it was evident that the University team had the edge on the Middlebury hoopsters; the Harvard forwards especially were playing a better brand than the Vermont offense...
...bodies provide not only great luxury of appointment but added comfort and convenience as well as considerably more room. Four-wheel brakes have also been included to effect a more positive control. The wheelbase has also been lengthened [103 in. to 107 in.]. There results a bigger and better Chevrolet in every sense of the word...
Social workers should include fiction in their homework. Novelists know more about life and are better observers than the serious "workers." So said Miss Lorine Pruette, writer, psychologist, at the meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies-17 scientific bodies specializing in history, economics, sociology...
...millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried a little, particularly when Fanny Cavendish fell sick and died. She was Haidée Wright...