Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in crediting the invention of the sun compass to Admiral Byrd. It was devised by Cartographer Bumstead in collaboration with George Washington Littlehales, chief engineer of the Naval Hydrographic Office, after Byrd requested something better for his purposes than the magnetic compass. The Bumstead-Littlehales sun compass, which contains a clock and a latitude adjustment, works on the principle that the compass direction of the sun at any time of day depends on the latitude and the sidereal time...
President Roosevelt's famed radio voice was never better than when he intoned: "1 pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal [of democracy]." Because more of them understood French, the crowd had more cheers for President Lebrun: ". . . despite the distance separating the United States and France, these two democracies . . . must remain united...
...office workers last week presented formal demands to the U. A. W. management. Like the good unionists they are, the office workers wanted such things as the closed shop, vacations with pay, a 35-hr, week, time & one-half for overtime, seniority rights, better lighting equipment, clean restrooms, a $25-per-week minimum wage and a signed contract...
...rump, while seven House members met in what no one was quite sure was rump or regular session. Meantime Governor Murphy got away from it all, cruising on the Potomac with Franklin D. Roosevelt, announcing before boarding a plane for Washington: "I haven't felt better in a long time...
Definitely eyesores at Paris 1937 are the bleakly and blankly modernistic pavilions of undistinguished size and cluttered interiors which misrepresent the U. S. and United Kingdom. Even the nearby Canadian building, largely devoted to a tasteful showing of excellent photographs of the Great Open Spaces, is better. Sadly, Britain's great Liberal daily Manchester Guardian recently observed: "The external architecture of the British pavilion is that of a plain white biscuit-tin . . . except for a glass pane with a highly conventional and sour-looking Britannia...