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Word: betterment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completed the most ambitious inquiry into this question ever made in the U. S., told New York, which spends more than any other State ($277,900,000), that it does not get its money's worth. Their proposals for making New York's school dollars do a better job were broad enough to fit most of the other 47 States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One for the Money | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Gulick and Mr. Young plead for a better deal for New York's pupils and taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One for the Money | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After the End | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Several Eastern Clubs Better...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Dartmouth Lets Down Hopes Of East in Defeat on Coast | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

More unadulterated piffle is expended upon this subject by students who should know better than upon any other campus topic, including pacifism. --The McGill Daily

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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