Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was that Brimsek was this season's No. 1 goalie. Art Ross's other prize performer was 22-year-old Roy Conacher, brother of famed Pucksters Charley and Lionel. Throughout the season Roy has pounded home 22 goals, has the experts saying he might be even better than either Charley or Lionel...
...with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...
...accompanying commentary written by Vincent Sheean and recited by Actor Leif Erikson, it examines from a frankly anti-Nazi point of view what happened between Hitler's invasion of Austria and the Munich conference. It sets out to show that the Czechs in their difficult predicament did much better than they were done by. Prime difficulties of recording history on film are that: 1) history neglects to follow a shooting schedule, and 2) that the most significant happenings are often the least pictorial...
...horsepower Allison (TIME, Jan. 30), which has much less head resistance than broad-beamed radials, the new Ranger has twelve cylinders in two banks. Unlike the Prestone-cooled Air Corps motor, it is air-cooled, has finned cylinders set head down below the crankcase for better pilot visibility...
Odets has portrayed frustration, bewilderment, man's dream of a better world in all his later plays, sometimes more subtly or more fiercely than in Awake and Sing, but never with so fused and spontaneous an effect. For one thing, Awake and Sing is written with a purity of feeling, a compulsion rather than calculation of purpose, which Odets has never regained. For another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before...