Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basically, the CCA represents what can easily be termed the "better elements" of the Cambridge community, the intelligentsia. Non-partisan in scope, the CCA preaches a goal of "Good City Government for Cambridge." Ideally, this vague phrase should stand for the best in American democracy--that is, an honest, efficient, and just administration--an objective the CCA says Cambridge deserves. Practically speaking, however, the phrase means something negative: to keep the traditional bossism, favoritism, and power politics out of Cambridge's city government...
Representing the Cambridge "Committee on Better Teeth for Our Children," Mrs. Dean A. Clark, wife of Dean A. Clark, clinical professor of Preventive Medicine, contacted Mott and urged him to form a group to spread pro-fluoridation propaganda among Cambridge voters, according to Mott...
Third, Harvard objectors have complained about the quality of the University's NSA delegates. A better electoral procedure here would remedy faults in this situation. If a committee composed of representatives of the Student Council and various organizations (such as exists for the Combined Charities Drive) sought out and nominated capable and interested representatives, Harvard could obtain a highly qualified delegation...
...love of music derived from my experience there"--and after his freshman year at Harvard, he attended the Eastman Conservatory for a summer. "I then had great doubts about the value of a University versus a conservatory education for a musician. But I finally decided the University education was better than the conservatory...
About Miss Humphrey's Laura, with her amazing vocal resemblance to her mother and her triumphant avoidance of the nullity towards which the part so dangerously tends, I had better not say any more. Her brother Tom is played by Joel Crothers, who lapses at moments into the mere personableness of a movie juvenile lead; for the most part, however, he takes after the rest of his stage family and is admirable...