Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demolishing monotony is a worthy goal, and a far better one than a naive attempt to infect the College with Rah Rah. In fact, the Key seems to be organizing the whole project fairly intelligently--there is a good chance that the project will avoid the sort of snares and pitfalls that finessed the all-college dance plans last year and ended the class of '51 dance...
...spite of these handicaps few men were killed; the Israell air corps did considerably better than the Egyptians, shooting down 24 of the enemy and executing several bombing raids on Damascus, Cairo, and El Arish, which lowered Arab moral. Mr. Augarten who found the Czoch Messerschmits an inferier successer to the Garman model destroyed four Egyptians, two better than his total score over Germany...
Yale, Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton always have strong teams, according to Ulen, and this year they'll be even stronger, judging by last year's swift freshman aggregation from these schools. Brown and Columbia are expected to be considerably better than usual...
...There chances for rehabilitation would be better if they were not released so suddenly," she declared. "There is too sudden a break with the discipline of the institution. It would be better if they were out working one day a week...
...Between better-than-average battle seenes and grave partisan conferences, the aristocrats are shown making merry, fleeing to Switzerland, flirting with German officers, aiding the underground, and worrying about gunfire's effect on their nerves. At least this rescues them from the black-and-white situation in which the rest of the cast finds itself...