Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive committee of the Harvard Student Union, after hearing a report from the Labor Committee and discussing it at length, voted support of the dining-hall employees' attempt to better their working conditions." Rufus Mathewson '41, Chairman of the HSU Labor Committee...
...start the ball rolling I suggest Misona, adjectival forms Misonan and Misonian. This is suggested by the Mississippi and Missouri, our two greatest rivers, and Arizona, which symbolizes our rich mountains and unique and fertile deserts. I do not doubt that better linguists than I can suggest better names...
...into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...
...only on the I. R. T.'s and B. R. T.'s terms, since no bankers would fight their monopoly. After five years of dickering I. R. T.'s then President Theodore P. Shonts put on a great show of letting the city get the better side of the bargain. A man of wit, he remarked: "I was fairly well dressed when I went into that room, but they've taken away everything but my shirt." To enable Mr. Shonts to dress again I. R. T. promptly recompensed him with a $150,000 bonus and doubled...
...added that she wished the University would agree to a closed shop. "Right now, we union girls are helping the non-union members to get better contracts from the College. I don't see why all waitresses shouldn't help to pay for our activities...