Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Yale and Harvard announced a cooperative course to supplement their football rivalry. Fathered by the dynamic William O. Douglas, the plan was to send ten or twelve Yale law students to the Harvard Business School for their second year of study, to give them a better insight into the business aspects of the law. Since Douglas has left Yale, interest in the plan has faltered both here and in New Haven, and now announcement is made of its abolition...
...most Bostonians, Massachusetts' legal holiday on April 19 is better known as the day of The Marathon than the anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. For parents who have to stand on a curbstone for hours so that their saucer-eyed brood may catch a glimpse of the first gaunt & gasping runner plodding along Commonwealth Avenue, and for motorists who are forced to detour all around town, the Marathon is a notorious nuisance. But for chronic gawps, students of foot racing and officials of the Boston Athletic Association (who sponsor the run), it is a great...
When twins came along the doctor charged double, "and from that minute on ever' bill has doubled it seems like." While waiting for times to get better they fortify themselves with a helpful game. While eating a breakfast consisting of only black coffee "we poke the fun at rich people and pretend that we are having just what we want. We ask each other polite-like to have toast and jelly and bacon and eggs and it shore helps...
...artistic value, so many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with those of certain younger, more obscure...
...field of twelve colleges only M. I. T., Princeton, and Brown were able to better the record of the Crimson sailors. The leading skipper of the meet was an M. I. T., man, Runyan Colie, with Roger Wilcox '41 and James A. Roussmaniere '40 among the pacesetters...