Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yers fer better apple butter an less apple sauce...
...which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children." He ended his address by saying: "I'm going to press a button and that will set everything going." He pressed, flood-lamps lighted on the speaker's stand. Bonneville's first power unit was in operation...
...purple hours- in vain. In 1934 he swallowed his pride, ran for Congressman from the Fifth Alabama District, the comparatively lowly job he had held for eight and a half terms (1904-21) before he found his way to the Senate. Ungrateful constituents placed Congressional Candidate Heflin no better than third, so he rushed back to Washington and the Federal job dispensers...
...Negroes formed to aid themselves socially and economically, stem all U. S. Methodist and Episcopal Negro churches. The majority of the Free Africans voted in 1791 to build an Episcopal church, and they soon affiliated it with the white, national church body. But Teamster Allen felt that Methodism was better for Negroes. He bought a blacksmith shop, began holding services, accumulated enough followers so that in 1799 he was ordained by Bishop Francis Asbury, pioneer U. S. Methodist. In 1816 the congregation of Negro Allen's Mother Bethel Church elected him the first U. S. Negro bishop...
...pair of unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth-eaten wing-feathers matched the one he had been saving for 23 years. He wrote his museum for permission to go to Africa for two months for the purpose of confirming his long standing suspicion that there was a relative of the peacock living in Africa...