Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame. I still regard him as having the best mind, memory and fund of general knowledge of anyone I've ever known. He turned down a chance to take the exams for a Rhodes Scholarship in order to go to Harvard Law School. He was a much better scholar than...
...knows better than I that this impression of that particular district is entirely in error and I can say in all truth that there is no district in San Francisco which can be described as being "tough." The San Francisco Police Department has worked hard and takes great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than...
...that dormitory men were interested in athletics, and it was their persistence that finally obtained the program. I fear that the prevailing belief in Harvard that the H. S. U. is only a crackpot organization is largely due to such slighting of its efforts to make Harvard a better place for Harvard men. William B. Schallck '41, Chairman, Yard Questions Committee...
Rumanians well know the "consequences." German troops could either march in through the mountainous districts of the Carpatho-Ukraine seized by Hungary last week (see p. 20) or Germany could back Hungary in an attempt to seize Transylvania, which until the Treaty of Trianon was a part of Hungary. Better yet, Germany could grab off Hungary first and then move into Rumania herself...
...into the most deadly activity in U. S. aviation-amateur flying. Vanguard of a host of private pilots that Civil Aeronautics Authority hopes to turn out at the rate of 20,000 a year from hundreds of U. S. colleges, they will have better basic training than the run of cornfield fliers...