Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dumbfounded notables that Japanese are badly mistaken when they say that U. S. public opinion as to Japan's aims is founded on misunderstanding. "The facts as they exist are accurately known by the American people. I do not suppose any country in the world today is better served by press and radio with accurate foreign information than the United States...
...Bulwark of Democracy." Whatever the fate of Finland, Scandinavia proper remained a prosperous, progressive and almost defenseless "Bulwark of Democracy," much better worth defending than were Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland...
...wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than you do now." But the last word is hers: "If Florence Nightingale had nursed you, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross...
...daily through the pipe line. Next year they expect to step that up to 50,000, with an eventual top of 70,000 barrels after all seven pumping stations are in. The oil yields 49% gasoline on straight run, double that under cracking processes (ordinary black oil yields no better than 24% gasoline on straight run). How much of it lies hidden in the upper Catatumbo basin nobody knows. The companies have until August 1941 to stake out their final claims. Then half of the Barco reverts to the Colombian Government...
...time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably, has got what it was after; the lawyer's veering ambitions are disposed of, and Mr. Cheney has done a number of things which even better equipped novelists might envy...