Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show does better than the gags. There's a hint of elegant symmetry to the plot which brings Hatchet Ma Marion and her splendidly repressed son to Bootleg, U.S.A., a last outpost of boisterous prohibition violation. After Rock, the pink-spatzed hoodlum who runs the town, has dropped 45 jokes about his daughter Belle's drunkenness, the 46th ought to be an embarassment, but such is the momentum that...
Glimp has four children in the Belmont school system. A central theme of his campaign has been the need to make better use of the town's $4 million school budget. He has proposed, for example, that the schools be open during the sum-for greater use by recreation and education projects...
...most responsible for the early success of the highway program was John A. Volpe, the nation's first Federal Highway Administrator. Today, however, Volpe's responsibilities are much broader than those of his earlier job. Instead of merely concerning himself with the problem of how to build more and better roads he must now weigh the needs of airlines, railroads, urban populations, and a vast range of national problems in making transportation decisions. It was encouraging to hear Mr. Volpe say, in his first press conference as Secretary of Transportation, that "highways alone won't do the job. In practically...
Saturday's victory was doubly sweet for Coach Jack Barnaby. Not only did his racquetmen tie or better Penn's record against common opponents in every match, but for the first time in history the Crimson shut out the Elis...
U.N.H. has even better credentials for a win over Harvard than Yale. The Wildcats have defeated B.U. and tied Clarkson--two teams seeded above them in the tournament--and have excelled against their toughest opponents...