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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragic factor is that Sir Austen has surrendered the independence of British diplomacy by tying us up with France. The history of 1906 to 1914 is being re written. It is not good for France or Eng land to re-establish any sort of alliance. It would be better to stand shoulder to shoulder, openly, with all the nations of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...field would be left open to those needing financial aid. While the proportion of ability might be as large in this group, the competition for a lucrative position would attract many whose efforts at earning had better be directed to other jobs, and the result might be disastrous to many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAID STUDENT LEADERS | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...alike for the student of the future and the vast numbers of people who today can know little of Harvard life as it is going on, the pictures can do more. When popular novels, sports articles and an impression of indifference together fail to satisfy, there is no better way to know the life of a group of an institution than to see where it is lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE SCENARIO | 10/11/1928 | See Source »

Fast Life. Better had this piece been called Slow Death. It is another from fecund Playsmith Samuel Shipman. The male party to a companionate marriage is accused of murdering a friend. It turned out that the real murderer was the son of the Governor, but this development was not permitted to have any effect until the unjustly accused was seated in the electric chair, a hood over his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...must be admitted that Chee-Chee, though sometimes cute and always dirty, is not consistently amusing. Herbert Fields deduced the book from Charles Petit's novel. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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