Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bigger and Better...
Penn, also undefeated, it the only crew powerful enough to have any chance of stopping Harvard's intercollegiate rowing juggernaut, and the Quakers would lke nothing better than to break the Crimson's five-year stranglehold on both the Adams Cup and the Eastern Rowing title...
...easy, Pierrot Mon Ami, he writes, "we'd be better off for the time being not so much with questions and answers as with streams of feelings flowing into the sea of reflections or vice and versa instantaneously...
...report said that rich suburban school districts were siphoning away the Cleveland system's tax base, and that Cleveland's scanty teacher force could barely man the classrooms. It said that the city needed a better "vocational-education" system, since only 30 per cent of its high school graduates even went to college. Using the jargon of the early sixties, it said that schools in "culturally-deprived" areas needed special help, since the "culturally-deprived" homes in Cleveland's ghettoes were "not able to do their vital part" in educating children...
Since then, Calkins' record has been surprisingly consistent with the outlines he set during his PACE days. During the campaign and after the election, he emphasized the same PACE issues. Cleveland needed better schools, more money, closer cooperation with industry...