Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality to many thousands of viewers. It is a travesty of the facts to describe it as a dismal failure; and as a regular, if transatlantic, reader of TIME...
...this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came to the conclusion that it could find no better symbol of a new stockmarket era than young Bill Martin. At their pleasure, he will hold the job indefinitely. Salary: $48,000 a year...
...minute fees, because the smaller the gross receipts, the smaller the author's take. Top money-making item of last year's silo stage was Tonight at Eight-Thirty, which took in about $50,000. This year, Yes, My Darling Daughter is likely to do a little better...
...pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion, The Silver Magnet gives a better picture of capital in a foreign land than many an economic treatise on imperialism and absentee ownership...
...bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better, brighter, the more he sees of her. By the time his emotions are most involved he is painting like a genius, thus demonstrating Author Lindsay's sly thesis that artists' search for solitude is futile, that they create best, not when they have things their own way, but when...