Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war, there was a vigorous Student Council committee known as the Committee on Consumer's Aid and Unfair Practices. In essence, the committee served as a Better Business Bureau for Harvard Square, protecting students against unscrupulous merchants and fly-by-night outfits out to make a quick buck at student expense...
...service and in taking positive action to protect the student along the lines laid out by its pre-war predecessor. A more vigorous showing in this endeavor would be of great service to the student body, and this function is one that the Council is probably able to handle better than any other organization...
Alexander Knox, in addition to having written the play, is co-starred in its along with Doris Nolan (who is also Mrs. Knox). Both are very talented actors, thought it seems that Miss Nolan gives the better performance. Of course, as the wise and kind wife, she has the more admirable part. Mr. Knox portrays the demented man as a fumbling, bewildered person rather than a maniacal killer. What in "The Closing Door" seems like underplaying by Mr. Knox, may be an authentic interpretation of a particular type of insanity, but it is not effective on the stage. Eva Condon...
...plan. He has cut the number of Rexall-operated stores from 540 in 1946 to 340, hopes to level off with about 300 in 1950. Said he cheerily: "To those not in the company we look worse and worse. But inside, in the overhead department, we're feeling better and better...
...godly clan gave her dirty looks. Vulcan ran to father Jupiter like a spoiled brat crying, "I want Mars to keep his hands off her! If he doesn't, I'll break his neck!" Actually, Vulcan had nothing to fear from Mars. The god of war was better looking, but Vulcan had all his hair. Venus' real weakness was not gods but men, something her mother-in-law was shrewd enough to suspect...