Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given dominion over the beasts of the earth. Man knows how the beasts reproduce. Because he knows better, man controls his own number of children, so he can have a family instead of a herd, a flock or a litter...
Well aware that his. Senate career has not brought him the headlines that it has brought his rival colleagues, Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey, Symington has embarked on a strenuous schedule of speechmaking trips around the country to get himself better known. Mid-October found him in Thomasville, Ga. for a speech to the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. From there the trail led to Cairo, Ga., his native town of Amherst, to Danbury, Conn., Painesville, Ohio, Gainesville, Fla. Last week, back from Abbeville, he spoke at Democratic meetings in New Castle and Easton, Pa., at St. Louis' Washington University...
...charge, popular in Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush to the summit. Accepting De Gaulle's spring timing, Adenauer suggested that early rather than late spring would be better in order to keep the summit from becoming involved in next year's U.S. election...
...Russian budget is hard to compare to the U.S.'s, it is nonetheless the biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live a bit better in 1960, but far from overtaking the U.S., they will still not have caught up to Polish or East German living standards...
...form a purposeful and consistent program." To help in this planning, the administration has appointed an Undergraduate Program Advisor, Professor W.D. Carmichael. "Without an apparatus to patrol course selection," says Carmichael, a former Rhodes scholar, "concentration in the School could become aimless." His students, who range from "better-than-average to extremely good," Carmichael explains, are "carefully shepherded" in their approach to these "fascinating, challenging issues of public policy...