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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better can sound the tocsin that will start a revolt to raise the tone of American politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tocsin | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Director of Public Safety from 1923 to 1925. General Butler, taking time out from a rip-snorting career in the U. S. Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators, such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Since General Butler's departure, Philadelphia policemen have paid as high as $1,000 for the privilege of serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters of the first trip to the moon had better examine their rocket carefully if they would make sure that no adventurous Negro is aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: To The Moon | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Profit & Loss. Public Accountants Ernst & Ernst compiled the profits & losses of their customers for the first half of this year. For 380 representative corporations in 22 lines of business, business in the aggregate was 7.92% better than the first six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Author. Louis Bromfield is one of those who live in Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juxtaposition | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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