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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last year the Navy's 308 ships were manned by 84,000 enlisted men, 8,905 officers. Of these 10,771 flew and tended 281 Navy aircraft. Said Secretary Adams: "The quality and efficiency of the enlisted personnel have never been better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Navy Report | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Harrisburg Governor Fisher retorted: ''I was shown a statement by a certain Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senator-Reject | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Since the Hoover-MacDonald Conference will deal only with naval disarmament, the Welshman had successfully wangled into the record that he is the champion of things bigger, broader, better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Every tournament brings up some new player. The one at Hillcrest was a giant Californian, Fred Morrison, who made 15 threes during the 36-hole qualifying round and won the medal with 136, four better than Diegel. Before long he disappeared into the traps that medalists so often discover in a match play. Harry Cooper, who had been given a starting time, was ruled out because he had not played in the elimination tournament in his district. Tommy Armour, one-eyed Scot, was sick at home. Al Espinosa put out Bill Melhorn in a match that went 40 holes, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dials for Diegel | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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