Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doing in the war zone all over Europe, Asia and Africa, is to provide entertainment for the men in the base camps, the prison camps and the hospitals, in order to prevent them from becoming morose and unmanageable, and thus keep them in better mental health...
...these questions has been given by another French soldier, himself no mean artist, who gave up his young life for his country last year. "If fate claims the best," he wrote to his mother, "it is not unjust. The less noble who survive will thereby be made better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live in a conquered country--for me above all others, as then my art could not exist." The notion that a man of genius is too precious to fight is, to some minds, attractive and convincing. But it is specious...
...should take care to be sufficiently well-informed about the political exigencies of the moment, that we may be able to have an opinion concerning the fitness of the Presidential nominees. In so doing it is possible that we may be able to add something to the better mass of opinion in this country and, more important, we shall prepare ourselves for the time when we are to take a more important part in national affairs...
...constructive and well-balanced ability and distinctly a man of promise despite the fact of his lack of years and experience in great educational problems, as that experience is counted today. He is not a specialist in any one field of education, yet he takes a better plea for the cultural studies than the special pleaders are wont...
Among the improvements will be more and better cuts, better binding and paper, and more attractive printing. The system of placing the numbers of the pages on which a man's name appears after his name in the general directory will be continued this year as being the most efficient manner of indexing a man's activities...