Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether it be viewed as good old-fashioned rough-house, the Harvard Dramatic Club's revised version of Sheridan's "The Critic," which opened last night for a three-day run at the Peabody Playhouse, provides healthy entertainment. In the original Sheridan told his contemporaries that entertaining was better than preaching, and many will see in this revival a revival of that warning directed at present-day dramatist. Others will see merely the H.D.C. gone slightly berserk...
...takes a much better skier to ski on the New England trails than on the Alpine trails in Switzerland," said Nat Niles, ski instructor at the Plymouth Swiss ski school and at the ski department of the Coop this week...
Niles, who learned to ski in Switzerland, decried the Alpine skiing set-up is "exaggerated." "Everything over there is bigger," he said; "the altitude is higher, the snow conditions are on the average better, and there is much more room than over here...
Inexperienced skiers should stay off the steep slopes, Niles advised. They should not go out with much better skiers unless the experienced ones are willing to spend the day on a gentle slope teaching them...
Elliot advocated the application of sanctions to all Fascist countries, which depend on expansion for their existence, and in that way are a universal threat to democracy. While we would be running the risk of a war as a retaliatory measure, it would be better to "take the risk now, than to try to deal with it less effectively later...