Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time as an "Independent Progressive...
Major reason for present-day gate receipts of $75,000,000 during an eight-week college football season is the increasing prevalence of wide-open play, more pronounced this year than ever before. Almost every major college has at least one better-than-average runner, one better-than-average passer. The forward pass, written into the rules in 1906, wandered around as a hit-or-miss side line for a quarter of a century. Now, since it has become the darling of the Rules Committee, the pass has developed into a major technique-classified into spot, crossover, alley, flat aerials...
Races between fishing schooners are an old Gloucester specialty. They flourished 100 years ago when rival skippers tried to beat one another to port to get a better price for their cargoes of fresh fish. Last week Gloucester's crinkled old salts gloomily watched a race between the only two full-rigged schooners left in the North Atlantic fishing fleet: Lunenberg's Bluenose and Gloucester's Gertrude L. Thebaud. It was the finale of a three-out-of-five series born in 1920 out of rivalry between Nova Scotian and Gloucester fishing vessels...
Everyone comes to see you get better...
...even better illustration of this belief is Wellman's own career. Respectably reared in quiet Brookline, Mass., he left high school to sell chocolates and woolen goods, failing miserably at both. After the War he went to Hollywood, persuaded Douglas Fairbanks to give him a job acting in The Knickerbocker Buckaroo. After William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when...