Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...terror in Russia has ceased. It ceased six months ago. All the energy of the government has turned to constructive work; the better element is coming to the front. To these facts testify abundantly men recently returned from Russia: journalists like Frazier Hunt, Robert Minor, and Isaac Don Levine, relief workers like Wilfred Humphries of the American Red Cross, military envoys like Captain Sadoul, and government emissaries and agents like William Bullitt and Raymond Robbins. All these men are opposed to intervention in Russia; Herbert Asquith is opposed to it; Mr. President, after your early utterances...
When asked whether he did not think it might be better to send enough troops to Russia to crush decisively the Bolshevist forces, Dr. Frankfurter emphatically replied: "Crush the Bolshevists? It is impossible. And further, it is the very presence of our soldiers in Russia which gives the Bolshevists their power. The plea that they are fighting against a foreign invader serves to gain the sympathy of the people...
...here, he has not yet had time to inspect the University closely but he expressed himself as much impressed by the living conditions of the students which, he said, are immeasurably superior to those in Europe. The facilities for research at the University he has also found to be better than any on the Continent...
...Neither the Harvard team nor the student body has the slightest justification for overconfidence," said Coach James Knox '93, concerning today's battle with the Tigers. Coach Knox is better fitted to make such an assertion than other members of the coaching staff, since he has followed the development of the Princeton eleven closely and has attended almost every one of its games. "Such overconfidence as they have at the present time," he continued, "probably owes its origin from the comparison of the Harvard and Princeton scores this season, particularly the victories of Colgate and West Virginia over the Tigers...
...Colgate's ability as a team may be judged from the fact that they played a far better game against Brown than did the University only on week later. The former team has also defeated Cornell and held Dartmouth, one of the strongest teams in the east...