Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
Harvard has supreme over Tufts all the way. The Crimson played a better combination game from start to finish, with the forwards and halfbacks showing real understanding. Hardenberg, left half-back and a former Cambridge University player, excelled for the Crimson, and one of the tallies...
...peso corporation engaged in the hemp, sugar, coconuts, lumber, mining, ranching, shipping, distilling, insurance, etc. business. To President Quezon (whom "Mike" Elizalde calls "one of the greatest men in the world"), his country's future problems seem more economic than political. So whom better could he have in Washington than the chairman of such an omni-industrial company...
...Spreckels of San Francisco-he used to have a polo team, rated at 19 goals, which won the Far Eastern title.* Besides enjoying the right to speak (but not vote) in Congress, to be entertained by Washington's lion-hunting matrons, Commissioner Elizalde will be able to enjoy better golf and tennis at Washington's country clubs than he could at Manila...
...Cashetta (who carried clubs for 300 of the 600 holes), his personal physician, Dr. Charles B. Alexander (who fed him orange juice and water), his financial backer, rich Air Conditioner Reuben Trane (who had 3,000 autographed golf balls handed out en route advertising his business), his good-natured better, fat Fred Tuerk-all made merry on Broadway, Super Marathoner Ferebee went to bed, put a sign on his door: "Don't open until Christmas...