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Word: bettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Daugherty, breastroker, for the Red and Blue, will offer the Crimson butterfliers a good race in the 200 yard event. He has been swimming it under 2:38 this season, somewhat better than the local efforts. Coach Ulen will probably pit Walker and Waldron against him, retaining Max Kraus for the medley...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SWIMMERS TO FACE WEAK PENN TONIGHT | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...points for Danny Endweiss, Yale's persistently perfect plunger. The New Haven team today meets Michigan at Ann Arbor and is likely to return to Connecticut Monday a bunch of beaten Bulldogs . . . . Princeton and Navy battle it out at Annapolis tonight in the first league meet for both teams. Better pick Tigers over Goats...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SWIMMERS TO FACE WEAK PENN TONIGHT | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Ascent, Vag muses, is little better than The Descent. The numbness which has held him in thrall all this time--and which has been the only thing to make life possible at all in the long torturing weeks of the Biannual Heat--now stubbornly refuses to depart. Everything--mind, body,--seems permanently, albeit painlessly, frozen with the icy breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...wire to the CRIMSON Disney said, "Robin Feild is held in high esteem by our staff of over 300 practical artists. I don't know of a better recommendation, and can only say Harvard's less will be someone's gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disney Lauds Feild, Expresses Regrets for "Harvard's Loss' | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

Although no official confirmation has come from University Hall or Dean Landis, the screws are believed to have been put on as part of a campaign to better Harvard's relations with Cambridge by forestalling any popular misconception that law students hold wild all-night orgies in their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lawyers No Longer Able to Entertain Women in Hastings Hall in Evening | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

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