Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular reader may I enjoy the hospitality of your columns in an effort to make Americans and Australians better known to each other...
...little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts on a three-cornered cap and plays the drum...
Among those individual performers who will bear watching this afternoon, John Crowley of the Roxbury School in Cheshire Connecticut stands high. He has an amazing record of over 140 feet with the discus, better by 15 feet than anyone now in Harvard,, and can throw the 12-pound ball nearly 52 feet. Crowley also shines as a jumper, being able to clear 5 feet 9 inches in the high and 20 feet in the broad leaps. A teammate of his, J. S. Birge, is one of the outstanding sprint entries in the meet. He has records of 10 seconds...
...taxpayers are to be considered, a group far in excess of any alumni body, yet few college officials and teachers appreciate the fact. The attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot be suppressed, that it is impossible to silence all the sources of information. Therefore...
...prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself, its structure, its traditions, its policies, its results. The more the public knows about the University of Virginia, the better opinion will be about it, the more liberal will be appropriations for it. --University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin...