Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palace circuit carried 220 volts. The apologetic photographers explained that something had gone wrong. The King amiably agreed to pose again provided there would not be another such explosion. He left the room and returned in ten minutes after adjustments had been made. Another three minutes posing, better behaved flash bulbs and the picture which TIME selected for its cover was taken...
...this amuses me because in the good old days Books was much better reading than National Affairs. However, with the President saying "Hey-Hey" while his son shines, nothing could be better reading than your opening column...
...Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
...parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions wagons and field artillery corps-the whole Victory Parade of such length that it took half-an-hour to pass a given...
...high water marks in the most drastic reorganization the British Army has seen for generations, a reorganization that proposed almost complete substitution by advancement by merit instead of by seniority, a new Army Council on which Territorial (National Guard) officers would sit for the first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...