Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close relations with the "Colossus of the North," most Latin-American states are shy from bitter lessons of the past. This traditional distrust can be undermined only by acquainting the South American with the true nature of this nation, and such an acquaintance can be imparted by no better means than education in domestic colleges...
...that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...
...Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last month admitted the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church (100,000 members) to its ranks. Last fortnight the Federal Council, which used to describe itself as a "Protestant agency," began looking for something better to call itself than a "U. S. non-Roman Catholic Christian agency...
...pants, spotted this Whitman line: Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? Last week he published Disputed Passage (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50). As a personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John...
Shoved off the Black Hawks bench because his 1938 world champions were in fourth place, with only eight victories in 21 games this season (a record that still was better than the Hawks had last year at this time), short, squat Bill Stewart was replaced by two men: his crack forward, Paul Thompson (brother of famed Goalie Tiny Thompson of the Detroit Red Wings), and a onetime Hawk named Carl Voss...