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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently, if she could afford to live at a hotel, and she thinks your publication so well worth reading, why not contribute less than a dime weekly to those lounge lizards and lobby loiterers cheerfully by giving them her paper, which would perhaps be instrumental in making better men of them, instead of slandering a State, which has given birth to some of the best Americans that ever lived, that is so rich in honorable and valuable American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Act II | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...automatic release hook then drops the shock cord. Once in the air, the pilot of a glider must depend on air currents. Usually he circles around a hill, taking advantage of swirling gusts of wind to gain altitude and maintain flying speed. He must know his air pockets better than any motor-propelled aviator.. Landing is difficult; but not dangerous, because the glider is neither heavy nor swift. Recently a skilled German pilot, Herr Espenlaub, landed his glider after being set loose from an airplane at a height of 5,000 feet. Many a gliding enthusiast skims the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eight Miles Up | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

That nowhere better than on shipboard could astronomy and navigation be taught; nowhere better than in foreign ports and capitals, economics, foreign trade, languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Florida | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...centres on a race from Foo Chow to Boston between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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