Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim to be a better friend of the League of Nations than some of those who speak for it! The League today is mutilated, halt and maimed, and those who like me to do my best to build it up are serving it better than those who would attempt to put on it in its present state tasks which are manifestly beyond its strength...
...personally commanded in the Red Square the Secret Police guards of Stalin and other Soviet leaders when reviewing parades atop the Tomb of Lenin. Thus Yagoda for years was the one man in Russia who could certainly have killed Stalin. Also Yagoda, as head of the secret police, was better able than any other Russian to frame someone else with an assassination. He is scheduled to confess this week that he succeeded in forcing the official Kremlin physicians, who care for Stalin's health, to cause the deaths of other Bolsheviks. One of these might have been Nikolai Yezhov...
...almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins, who is very much of a laugh and a snarler than whom there is none better. The plot meanders along at just the right pace so I can get in a chortle at all the jokes and still hear the next line, which is a pleasure after all these sophisticated comedies which keep a fellow thinking so hard. This Mr. Robinson is right at home...
...DePinto, who on hearing that Yale had bowled the phenomenal score of 1645, in his final round shattered all records for the day with a 149 point string, 50 better than any of his previous scores...
Members of the group will have the opportunity to know the city better than most native sons. Chinatown, Harlem, Italy, Syria--these are mixed with visits to the Stock Exchange, the Municipal Lodging House, churches, courts, Ellis Island, the Night Markets, radical centers, and labor groups...