Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today competition between colleges for just plain students is so sharp that many institutions entice even nonathletic high school graduates with pictures of girls in bathing suits, offers of tuition rebates. One Indiana college went so far as to kidnap three freshmen from another institution, make them a better offer. The freshmen accepted...
...large there were four times as many cases as at the same time last year. Extraordinary as this is (for 1934 and 1935 were measles years, and usually measles strikes heavily only twice in a decade), doctors who read their medical journals diligently were better prepared than ever before to combat a respiratory disease which causes much misery and some deaths...
...satisfied was Royal Dutch Airlines (K. L. M.). which in ordering eleven new Lockheeds insisted on a better aerodynamic balance in the twin tail-and got it. Lockheed, proud of its $100,000, 250-m.p.h. ship, is now adding a static balance similar to that on K. L. M.'s to all 14H models. Only eight of this model have so far been delivered (all to Northwest Airlines) but the 5½-acre Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif., just enlarged after a record year's business ($4,750,000), has more than $6,000,000 in unfilled orders...
...Adolf Hitler's Aryan Germany, that fairyland goosesteps up and down the streets in brown shirts. If Wagner, in his operas, sets will and strength above mere brains, thereby echoing the philosophy of his contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler is himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter...
...world in his understanding of men. He could turn out gnarled sentences as strong as Whitman's: "The great, keen, shrewd, boring, patient, philosophic, critical and remorselessly searching world will find out all things, and bring them to light," he wrote. "I know Lincoln better than I know myself. He was so good and so odd a man, how in the hell could I help study...