Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this course is to provide an opportunity for the general public to become better educated in medical knowledge, at present the average person gains his medical knowledge from hearsay. These lectures will enable everyone taking advantage of them to obtain an authoritative viewpoint on vital aspects of this course...
...Then business turned its attention to the development of better relations between employer and employe, and while much remains to be done marvelous progress has been made...
...famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many Czechoslovaks, myself included, could have written a better!" Although some who sat near to Playwright Trych applauded his patriotic words, most of the audience took him to be a madman, rushed hugger-mugger from the playhouse...
...explained his downfall. Said he: ". . . We are not as strong as we were a few years ago. . . . We are very anxious to try to prove that we are yet capable of at least holding our own against anybody in the world.... As to our adversary, he has evidently played better than we. . . ." The game of chess, Capablanca hinted, had become so formalised that it was perhaps possible for an expert to draw every game in case he wished to do so. To attempt victory demands a move which, if its implications are overlooked, will supply an advantage but which...
...Silverman '30 and Norman Winer '29, speaking in Paine Hall for the affirmative, contended that, China, having established five new codes of law, improved its prisons and reforms, and having set up a better government, was now fully competent to govern itself...