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The Diagnosis Murder star had been expected to receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Bettering Humanity Through Comedy from New York cultural centre 92nd Street Y next week.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2013

Soon the Betterer, a nasty character who preys on parents' anxieties about their badly behaved children and offers to improve them with a spell in Bettering Towers, identifies him as a likely candidate for training.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2010

Bettering 100 yds. in rushing for the sixth time this year, Brown boosted his season total to 995 yds. and widened his runaway lead as the N.F.L.'s top ground gainer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bettering yourself can be as easy as choosing a different board, as Andy demonstrates the next day at the same break.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor." founded in 1796, became a very important early-nineteenth-century institution.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson