Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...league in Captain Ray Ratajczak, leading shortstop of the league for the past two years, and McLaughlin, while in the outfield Hanna and Casey have no peers in the league when it comes to fly-catching. Behind the bat Joe Urban, who up to this year was better known for his ability as a receiver than a hitter, is doing a bang...
UNIVERSITY -- Waikiki Wedding: 3:00, 6:25; 9:50. Married Woman: 1:30, 4:50, 8:15. Better Than Average Program...
...successively laid low electrons, protons, positrons, photons, neutrons, alpha and gamma particles. After approximately three years of research, physicists Street and Stevenson have definitely decided that yet another particle should be added to the list. They haven't named it yet, feeling that they should become a little better acquainted with their research-child before they give it an identity...
...Amos Bronson Alcox. He changed it not for euphony but to scotch smirks. Born (1799) a Connecticut farmer's son, Alcott had a good old-fashioned pastoral upbringing but little school. His immortal longings were not bounded by the farm's horizon: he was determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling...
Harry Bogen, born on the East Side, and now living with his mother in The Bronx, was a smart guy and knew it better than anybody. A brief experience as a shipping clerk in the Seventh Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...