Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, and this is why Pennsylvania expects improvement, there are at least six good sophomores ready to step in whenever necessary. Their chief attribute is size, something the Quakers did not have last year. All are over six feet in height. All are potentially better than average performers...
With regard to commercialism of radio, Mr. Siepmann was non-committal. He does not feel that it is incompatible with radio education, "especially if we get a better idea of education, and see it as the interpretation of life and its values. Such programs can have a high entertainment value...
...better start can be made towards a new unity than the condemnation of Russian aggression. All future advance along progressive lines can spring only from this sharp severance from Communist ideology. Harvard's Student Union should not allow its growth to be hundred either from within or without. At the National Convention of the American Student Union after Christmas, relations with Russia will again develop into a storm-center. Already a hundred New York chapters have decided to stick by the Party Line. But on a national vote dissension will break out through the Student Union. If the Party Line...
...surface, Harvard stands only to gain by this appointment. Essential in the long range campaign for better public relations are interesting radio broadcasts. Faculty dissertations on the "Effect of Income Fluctuations on the Marginal Propensity to Consume" may serve a purpose, but hardly that of making new friends for Harvard. Mr. Siepmann, who has been prominent in the realm of adult education, can be of great assistance. And the Radio Workshop could obviously ask for no better guide and tutor...
...style that certainly indicates that he knew what he was seeing; Hopper, however, interprets nature in a way that leads one to believe that he can understand certain things which lie beyond his immediate field of vision. In other words, Hopper is the more intelligent, consequently the better painter...