Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House clerks spent the better part of two days trying to find their pay checks which arrived in the same mails as 100,000 letters containing dimes for the Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
...when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken it, we must necessarily win the rearmament race...
...People's Army now headed by General Pozas still lacks sufficient planes, heavy artillery and junior officers, but it has a unified organization, uniforms, better food than the civilians of Madrid or Valencia, at least five weeks' training of recruits before going into the lines (six months for officers) and a basic pay of ten pesetas a day (60?). Three pesetas was the average pay of Spanish farm hands before the civil war. Leftist Spain confidently faces the new year with a new army...
...they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded his freedom. After three anxious days, his "sister" arrived and he was able...
Most cinemagoers would probably say, if asked, that every U. S. motion picture has to be passed by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Hollywood knows better. Since 1919 the industry has paid almost $1,000,000, at the set reviewing-charge rate of $6.25 a reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been...