Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That the Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
This pro-German propaganda, a great deal better than any Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda know how to turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working...
Most salable success secret in the U. S. at the moment is speech improvement. Last week Chicago's Better-Speech Institute of America gave evidence of the profitableness of this industry...
...Better-Speech Institute, operated by Neal B. Dunbar and Estelle B. Hunter, sells a speech training course in 15 lessons at $1.85 in group lots, or $5 to the individual. The institute's unique sales technique is to persuade corporation managements that their employes would serve them better if they talked better. So strong a spur is company endorsement that sometimes the institute sells every single employe. Biggest customers: employes of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (11,067 courses), J. C. Penney Co., Inc. (11,000), Sears, Roebuck and Co. (10,750). All told the institute has sold...
...Better-Speech pupils get 15 pamphlets providing the equivalent of eighth-grade instruction in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary. They are told that it is not so elegant to say "we couldn't get along without the typewriter" as "the typewriter is an indispensable office appliance...