Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of Latin American Presidents is at least half a dictator, and burly Agustin P. Justo of Argentina, although he loves to dress in the most correct cut of cutaway, is no better than the best...
...year term allowed him by the Argentine Constitution. Not so surprised were politicos when Justo hand-picked his successor, Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz, his Finance Minister. In Argentine politics the Government nominee usually wins. When the votes were counted five months ago Justo's man had done even better. He had rolled up the largest popular vote in the country's history...
...long last, last week, Yale met Michigan at New Haven. In its magnificent Payne Whitney natatorium, Yale lined up a green but well-rounded team, which had chalked up nine victories and no defeats this season. Michigan's team, also undefeated, was rated better. It included Tom Haynie, generally considered the best all-round college swimmer in the U. S., and Ed Kirar, intercollegiate sprint champion. As might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan...
Chief trouble is getting a job. Each year U. S. schools send forth over 2,000,000 youngsters to go to work. Less than half of them find it. Moreover, some three-quarters of them are not trained for anything better than unskilled labor...
...most famous composition teachers of her generation. In Paris (where she heads the Ecole Normale de Musique's composition department) and in Fontainebleau (where she has long been associated with the American Conservatory), Mile Boulanger, at one time or another, has had nearly half of the better-known younger U. S. composers at her feet. Main purpose of her present Boston visit is not conducting but teaching. The news that she was to lecture for a term at Radcliffe College brought pleas for admission from hordes of Harvardmen...