Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floor Leader Barkley could think of no better comeback than to hope that his opponent was not minimizing the odds that had been offered...
...minutes after Katherine Audrey Browne Beasley received a Nevada divorce decree last week from famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, she applied for a license to marry her 22-year-old foster son, Franciszek Andzej Pajkowski, better known to followers of lawn tennis as Frankie Parker. When the license bureau asked Mrs. Beasley her age, she said "over 21"-a statement which she was able to back up by the fact that she has a 21-year-old daughter Katherine, as well as a son Jimmy, 14. By the marriage which followed, Frankie Parker became stepfather as well as foster brother...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
...earplugs, dives down into an underwater paradise which is, as Author Gilpatric describes it, half marine science laboratory, half Freudian dream. There, armed with a spear, he harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out. Besides being better exercise than most fishing, goggle fishing has one further sporting advantage: It exposes the fisherman to some risk of being the victim as well as victor in the game. On one occasion, when a large octopus wrapped itself around Fisherman Gilpatric, he had a few bad moments cutting himself loose...
Elizabeth Hawes thinks this is already a complete anachronism, that the time has come and that she herself has proved that U. S. manufacturers would do better each to hire a real designer and specialize in something the public wants, instead of herding frantically after the French or one another...