Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force, somewhat parallel to original sin, which cannot be wiped out but should be perpetually chastened. In this strange misapprehension, the gravest flaw is obvious: it does not approximate reality. Last week, in the light of glaring facts, the President and Business were forced to see each other in better perspective. Results of the mutual reinspection were practical and ironic...
...Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy's Chief of Naval Operations, Iowa-born Admiral William D. Leahy. But seadogs old & young, already convinced that Roosevelt II is Navy's best Presidential booster since Roosevelt I, last week had a better reason to rejoice in their biggest Navy...
...minutes, 51 and four-tenths seconds. Holding hands with him at the finish was his teammate Peter Bradley '38. John Erhard, the Harvard banner carrier, was thirty yards behind the two Orange and Black harriers. Captain Erhard is a good cross country runner, but the two Princeton men are better still...
...doubling of candle-power in the Reading Room refers to the saying, "by their lights ye shall know them," the "them" being translated as assignments, and more and better work will be done in the brighter library. Equally helpful is the new assistant to be unleashed on the spot when a book is reported "lost". Lots of times a mistake in the application for the book, or a slip in the check-up on books loaned, or a careless mislayal of the book, will be corrected by the new officer before the student can leave Widener in a grumbling mood...
...really am better. Last night seems very far off. Sometime I will have to think about it--objectively. God, I'm hungry! Rest, sleep--healing, wonderful, the Fountain of Youth, a sulphur bath. (My father takes sulphur baths.) Like a mountain stream: cool, trebling, ceaselessly flowing. What is it? Who knows what it is? It alone has the same value for eternity; it alone is worthwhile. Boy, smell that bacon! I'll be down there in a jiffy...