Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceedings of the United States Senate, as printed day by day in the Congressional Record, we should have to say that it would be such an answer as the super-verbose and dimly lighted might be expected to give. Is it possible that we Americans cannot do better than that? Nicholas Murray Butler in the Columbia Spectator...
Lawrence, after vainly attempting to set up a cult of his own, established some sort of mystical communion with the cow, Susan, about whom he wrote what the lay mind cannot consider better than gibberish. Professor Tindall brings an uncompromising realism and common-sense to his subject, although he occasionally lapses into something like sympathy. Not that there can ever be true sympathy between a Mozartian on the one hand and a Wagnerite like Lawrence on the other! This is Professor Tindall's second study of a literary figure for whom he has no real liking (Bunyan was the first...
...Bolles coaching tactics in crew this fall have brought to light some old controversies in their full force. Questions of whether it is the heavy crew or the light crew, the tall crew or the short crew, and better form or more power that makes the best eight have all had an opportunity to resolve themselves in Bolles' experimenting, but the question still remains undecided...
...Bunny, we reviewed him last week. And we repeat, don't miss him. The band is far better than early reports would have led one to suspect, and Bunny himself is almost always good. By the way, if you're looking for after-game amusement tomorrow. Leon Mayer at the Kirkland House Dance did a bang-up job of dance music last year for Winthrop House--and the rumor has spread amongst the local wolves that the vocalist with the band has charms beyond her vocal chords...
...will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory, but "unemotional" seems to be a better word to describe their approach. Well polished by a year's experience on Broadway, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is on its way to becoming an American classic...