Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent protest and petition by eleven members of the Freshman class, resulting from the recent House assignments, are beneficial because they call attention to the need of a better system of House admissions; they are, however, unhealthy in that this is a campaign not prompted by any altruistic desire to better conditions in general, but an expression of resentment on the part of a small group who feel that several of their personal acquaintance have been unjustly excluded...
...Among the most frequent mistakes in grammar (habitually made by the press, and even by college graduates): I only have two; You will do as I say; What are his politics? She goes from worst to worst; He's better than any man in the world...
...could make sense of the literary passages and even fewer had any notion of what Poet Stevens was driving at; 75% believed that the poem was an argument for temperance. Similarly, the students as a group scored only 47% on literary information, 42% on scientific information. They did better (57%) on a section of the test in which their memory for facts counted. Examinees were found to have many superstitions: 70% believed that daughters resemble their fathers more than their mothers; 60% that if a dominant man marries a weak woman more than half of their children will be boys...
Full-grown, old-style war babies were no better off. President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel (whose big Eastern shipyards are running at full capacity, have just received new orders for one battleship and two cruisers) saw his common selling at 30% below the year's high. U. S. Steel Corp. was floundering in the red. General Electric's Gerard Swope had nothing to cheer about: his April orders had failed to hold the March improvement...
...been without a guardian conscience which he called his Muse. To the Greek poets, the Muses were goddesses who led a life apart from the bullheaded and goatish gods but were, like them, bland absentees. After paganism, when Christianity started trying to hatch out a more personal and better world, the Muse turned from goddess to angel-like Dante's Beatrice, who spoke to him from heaven. But with the Renaissance, poets found their angels nearer home and less angelic: in Elizabethan times, on the streets and in the Court; in the 18th Century, in the boudoir...