Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council has recruited 350 volunteers in an attempt to better the college wide charity drive record...
When asked about atomic energy, Mr. Arbuthnot, Frank Sullivan's cliche expert, said "humanity is at the crossroads." The AEC's next chairman had better be prepared to direct a lot of traffic...
Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
...article continues: "The Big Three' no longer exists, Bingham said, and the Ivy League is a better set up. 'We've got a good program and we're going to stick in our own class. Big Time football...
With a ten-meet schedule ahead, Ulen thinks seven the most the varsity team can win. "Yale--out of this world; Army--2500 athletes, in early every night; Dartmouth--better than last year, had a fine freshman team:" Ulen mutters; "and Princeton has the second fastest breaststroke in the world (Brawner...