Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber Mason wins, if he shrewdly bet on pages, not lines of advertising. TIME'S increase in lineage for 1928 was a little better than 20%, in number of pages a larger increase than any other U. S. magazine. In number of lines, Colliers, having a larger page, beat TIME by a small margin. During January and February of 1929, TIME'S lineage increased about 75% over...
...comparison of scholastic grades between athletes and non-athletes for the last three examination periods puts the athlete in, an average or better-than-average position as compared to ordinary students at Harvard...
...give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...
...yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...
...enough to help the class upon a third road. Since 1922 stained glass and pseudo-Gothic vaults have reverberated once each year to jazz; but Protean student opinion stops changing for a moment, and finally agrees that bare wall expanse deadens good cheer. Back Bay is forbidden--all the better does the Harvard luster of the affair show...