Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student Council authorities announced last night that they will continue to run a clearance office for sellers and buyers of non-redeemable football tickets until some better system of redemption is instituted...
Coach Henry Lamar will make only two changes in his opening lineup of last Saturday; "they'll work together much better after the extra practice and one game," said Lamar. He will use few reserves, standing with the squad...
Other presidents have found that the nation's alumnae could better use a whole re-education in the matter. To Lynn White of Mills, the big obstacle was that women outlive their husbands. Then they give away their money to their husbands' alma maters. "I go around the country advising women to predecease their husbands," says Mills's president. "We'd do better...
...Britain, Faery Products, Ltd. offered for export a "better mousetrap." The trap has a platform surrounding the bait. When the mouse touches the platform, the trap springs; the bait can be used again. Price: about...
...trucker (Richard Conte) foils some market thieves, avenges a robbery of his father, sells his apples at a profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck. Most surprising scene: the flagrant cruelty of the hero as he unmercifully slugs a flabby villain who doesn't want to fight...