Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent it to the House, where a parallel bill was marking time in committee. Observers were uncertain just how favorably the House would view the bill, but were agreed that the 70-car measure was in a better spot than ever before in its legislative history...
Only objector to the project was Vice President James S. Cox of Wrigley's, who barked: "They better watch what they do to that sculpture. It cost a lot of money, and they might ruin...
Strategy in yacht racing is for the boat that is losing to change her tactics. In the last half of the first leg of the first race last week, Sopwith started a tacking duel in the hope that better handling on Endeavour would reduce Ranger's lead. If anything, Ranger's tacks were executed a shade more smartly. She rounded the mark with a six-minute lead...
Faced with the task of gaining six minutes on Ranger in a 15-mi. run down wind, Sopwith then tried a desperate alternative that offered at least a chance of catching up. He sailed far off the course to gamble on a better breeze. The hope, forlorn at best, was frustrated. When Ranger crossed the line, in a deafening uproar from the spectator fleet. Endeavour was barely visible in a gathering fog. She finished 17 min. 5 sec. later, beaten more thoroughly than any boat in an America's Cup race since James Bell's Thistle was beaten...
...fountain in Aloe Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public...