Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SOMEWHERE EARL BROWDER WROTE THAT A LIBERAL [TIME, May 9, P. 2] TO HIM WAS A PERSON WHO RAISED DOUBT AND INDECISION TO THE LEVEL OF A PRINCIPLE. NEVER HEARD A BETTER DEFINITION...
...humored General Andrews' remarks were justifiable on several counts. All along the middle and upper Atlantic Seaboard there were soldiers in the sky, playing war in the first full maneuvers staged alone by General Headquarters Air Force. Relations between the air service and the Army at large were better than at any time since 1935, when GHQ A. F. was established as a compromise between those who wanted an entirely separate air force and those who wanted to keep the Army's wings tied securely to the ground command. But the entente was not sufficiently strong to withstand...
...committee recommended that the schools provide much more art, music and other esthetic outlets, that they offer children a fair balance between failure and success. Greatest need, however, is unworried, better-balanced teachers, preferably married...
Played like roulette, with the mouse replacing the white ball, the game, called Cardette, is the brainchild of 28-year-old Gambling Dealer Everett MacDonald. Cardette, says Inventor MacDonald, requires no bait, can't be fixed, pays better odds than roulette...
...Sealyham. Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition than the fact that of 46 paintings shown last autumn only five are among the 120 contemporary pictures now in Paris. And nothing shows better the character of the man chiefly responsible for the exhibition...