Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year may have been the turning point. At a New Year's party in his glittering new Chancellery, Adolf Hitler surprised diplomats by having a long, amiable talk with Russian Ambassador Alexei Fedorovich Mere-kalov. Hitler speaks no Russian, the Ambassador little German, but they understood each other better than anyone realized. Thereafter, the Goebbels Press & Radio ceased their gutter-word attacks on Joseph Stalin...
...parley in Sweden. One-eyed General Jan Syrovy, the "strong man" who became Premier of Czecho-Slovakia during last September's Crisis and who seemed to disappear when Bohemia-Moravia became a protectorate, was rumored carrying mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed home from a League of Nations Council meeting to fight against...
...sweep-swinger, will be lost from the eight which defeated Yale. The six returning oarsmen and coxswain; plus the wealth of material from the freshman and junior varsity squad, give a basis for optimism. This is the Olympic year in rowing, and Bolles and the oarsmen would like nothing better than to have the Crimson colors carried abroad
Harvard is the oldest and most richly; endowed university in this country. The average Freshman is thus duly impressed with pride in its glory and apprehension lest he cannot live up to its traditions. He is constantly told by his elders and those who should know better that in going to college he is entering Life, that he is On His Own and facing Responsibility. Thus inhibited by good advice he is apt to fear that any independent activity or self-expression will be regarded as a breach of good taste or even of discipline...
...because of the arena's small size. But if you wait for a mythical stamp of Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform to. Henry Adams, who understood Harvard better than any man in the last century, said that the University left the mind "free from bias and docile," and he considered that an achievement...