Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person is a good risk if he or she attended Sunday school after the age of 10, better if he is still attending...
Mason Fernald is entered in the 60-yard high hurdles. Fernald was put out in the 45 yard hurdle semi-finals last Saturday in the Prout Games in the Boston Garden, but is expected to do better over the longer distance. Bob Haydock, Harvard record holder, will high jump. This will be his debut in 1938 winter track...
...Harold got back his thesis. He saw a large "D" with a small "-" after it, as Professor Bell said: "of course you'll have a chance to do better on your second draft. By the third draft you should have a pretty decent job done. This material is not easy for you undergraduates to grasp, you know. Ha! Ha!" He smiled as though he wished to be encouraging but couldn...
...similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical experience with actual tools of the trade. In short, he wants Harvard architects to build better buildings, while President Conant is frankly anxious for newer buildings by better builders might be construed as their combined...
There is also a Harvard graduate down in Washington who is known to be highly interested in this subject. President Roosevelt proposes a lot of new buildings, and he wants them to the good buildings, better than have ever been constructed before, and more of them. His views might well from a third parallel, pointing in the same direction as the two Harvard reports. May the ambitions of all three men as regards building grow closer and clearer until the time comes when they can blend in the achievements of their object together...