Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell House.... perhaps the most prized is our Master himself." So said a past issue of the Lowell House Chronicle. Proudly it characterized Jullan Lowell Coolidge as a "living legend," Lovingly it described these quirks of habit well known to local mathematicians since the beginning of the century, even better known to Bellboys since the House was built. Such affection is a rare tribute to the man who has proved himself not only a scholar and a teacher, but a successful pioneer Housemaster...
...situation in the line is considerably better. Chief loss for Saturday's game is Barnes, who has been out with a pulled muscle all week. Into his place at right end stops Chester Jenks, whose chief short-coming seems to be lack of experience, a deficiency generally true of St. Paul's alumni because of their intramural sports policy...
...public ownership should always turn out Louisville-style, the sooner the U. S. public could forget about it the better off it would be. But this week, while doubtful Louisville citizens could look south into the TVA area and wonder how the greatest public ownership project in U. S. history would turn out, they could look west to plushy, conservative Colorado Springs, Colo., and see how one public ownership enterprise did turn out. For Colorado Springs (pop. 35,000) had just paid off the last $181,000 of the $2,200,000 debt it assumed when it began city operation...
...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...
Under the nighthawks, high and strange, Through beauty which is almost pain, Through wild juniper by the sea, The cows are coming home in Maine. Such lines, like the rest of Coffin's better verse, will make readers feel that they are being offered complimentary tickets to a prettier world than their daily one. Unfortunately these tickets give admission to no world, but only to the Maine-strewn inside of Coffin's curly head...