Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fight for Better Schools (MARCH OF TIME) is a blue print for grass-roots action to right a widespread U.S. wrong...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...
...hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still has enough strength to make it better than the run of movies...
third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...
Anything the Dartmouths did, the Harvard band did better. The visitors marched onto Soldiers Field before the game started, spelling out the first names of the Indian coach, Tuss McLaughry, and the team captain, Herb Carey. So the Harvard band walked on and spelled out the names of both Art Valpey and the Indian mentor...