Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which were adequate half a century ago, before the population had mushroomed and the physician in private practice could fulfill its needs. They have consistently opposed the development of systems of medical care which threaten to minimize the importance of the old doctor-patient relationship, but which would provide better care for a greater number. The comparatively high standards of health in our cities, with people working under poor industrial conditions, is evidence that institutionalized medicine is the best method of caring for them. Legislation which would provide funds for the continuance of a system that functions on the whole...
...make a statement regarding the promise of the 1938 team, Head Coach Dick Harlow, expressed himself as satisfied with the results obtained from the five weeks of spring football practice just concluded, because of the development of a number of inexperienced players which he hopes will make a definitely better team...
...knowledge as a working tool, something to keep always at hand, something that cannot be earned by rote. For the sake of intellectual honesty, if nothing else, he should avoid tutoring schools and concentrate alone. Nor ought fear of bad marks drive him to these portals, because he can better cram by himself. Unfortunately, grades are gold when considered in terms of a degree; otherwise, as a measure of ability and real knowledge, they have only petty significance...
...hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont's. When he landed, cramped and tired, he said he could have gone on & on with the greatest of ease, had landed at Tulsa because that was his objective...
Until he began gathering material for this biography, Author West shared the conventional view of his subject: Darwinism he took for granted; Darwin the man he regarded with "faint distaste" as a too typical Victorian. When he became better acquainted with his material, he changed his mind. He became fond of Darwin the man, and he made a shocking discovery about Darwinism. He discovered that Fascists, Communists and rugged individualists all claim direct descent from Darwin's theory of the Survival of the Fittest. What these monstrous descendants ignore, decided Author West, is that Darwin got his Survival theory...