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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of professional football he may have carried three the years from one afternoon when, aged 19, he received $1000 playing in a touch contest between Latroha and Jeanectte. Professional football has grown beyond his expectations in larger cities. The better to be the center of this growth, March founded the American pro league last year. He hope see a griditon world series some day--the established National League versus the stery American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Schools Played Him | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

...free legal assistance in civil cases to the needy of Cambridge and vicinity, will increase its permanent staff from 24 to 33 men. As a part of the expansion policy, opportunity to work at the Bureau will be extended to third year students with an average of 65 or better in their Law School classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLDSTEIN, SPEARS NEW DIRECTORS OF LEGAL AID BUREAU | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

...plot is of about as much importance as is usual in this type of film, and if musical vaudeville is tops in entertainment value at the present. "Artists and Models" will posses definite appeal to the moviegoer because the picture is better than average in its line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...expectations. Cast as the hoosier dramatist, he is triumphantly ludicrous throughout. He confides, grins and goes into raptures just as country boys, according to dramatic convention, always do. None of the actors uses any restraint, but in a farce of this sort the heavier the lines are drawn, the better...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

...from France by the simple device of threatening to dispatch warships; his ungloved fight to overthrow the Bank of the United States; his support of Protégé Sam Houston in the fight to annex Texas ("about which," says Author James, "the less said by Jackson partisans the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Jackson | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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