Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of college life--were completely concerned with the outlook of the maladjusted boy full of miscellaneous terrors, real or imagined injustices, and evils of every sort. Thousands of others, well-adjusted to their environment, never were contacted; and to get their side of the picture, to have a better basis from which to analyze the misfit, Dr. Bock inaugurated the Grant Study last fall...
...little red schoolhouse, which with the little white church formed the basis of the early West, is now doing a good deal better than the white church. In fact on the edge of one out of five typical western county seat towns, a small college has grown up with half a dozen buildings, a stadium, and cars parked all over the lot," he added...
...favor the Council plan because it contains many important features making it possible to institute a system by which the average fellow gets a better chance for exercise...
...Flatto is a ribbon manufacturer. This year, thanks to Shirley Temple Hair Bows and a vogue for beribboned lingerie and millinery, his business is 50% better than...
Readers' first question about They Still Say No will be: How does it compare with the early novels of Sinclair Lewis (the author's father)? Sinclair Lewis' only child by his first wife, Wells Lewis, 21, a senior at Harvard, is a slender, sandy-haired, better-looking but less vigorous, less radical edition of his father...