Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's game, Garces and Co. will have a choice of two fine Crimson netminders to terrorize, and neither goalie is the type that backs down under pressure. Playing with his broken hand in a cast, Tom Bagnoli spent the better part of practice yesterday trying to convince coach Bruce Munro that he was ready for action. Bob Forbush will open in the nets if Bagnoli's hand continues to trouble him excessively. Forbush proved himself beyond all doubt against Princeton last Saturday, when he turned in a fine performance on a muddy, slippery field...
...living; and since the Master has foresworn any methods smacking of coercion, he probably cannot select a certain number to move from the House into Mather. At the same time, the suggested solution of moving Quincy students into Mather from Claverly singles out a small group which should receive better rooms. Having suffered for a year in Claverly's creaking suites, they deserve to move into the new building...
...might have used his jaws to better effect in chewing out his mediator in the steel strike, who accomplished nothing; or his President, whose threats of intervention worried only the unions; or his President again, for invoking the Taft-Hartley act, which will do precious little good...
...present stalemates has shown that a better system of regulating disputes than now exists is needed. The injunction mechanism now provided becomes only a lever for management, and is the last weapon in the government's arsenal. And in this strike where such huge forces are involved, the eighty-day return to work may grant only a momentary respite...
...Suez crisis, several blistering columns by the Times's Gould shamed all three networks into covering the U.N. Security Council debate on the Mideast. After John Crosby rapped CBS for vapid programing, CBS Board Chairman William Paley postponed a European vacation to help whip up something better. This fall, before putting on the air the new private-eye program called Staccato, the producer invited Los Angeles' Humphrey to appraise the opening show. After Humphrey passed judgment-"a miserable piece of junk"-it was scrapped, another episode substituted...