Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return was that he was to undertake a survey of the Danzig situation for the League. The Poles greeted his arrival as a reassertion of League authority. Nazi newspapers, cued by suggestions in the French and British press that "Danzig is not worth a war," thought they knew better, and hailed tactful Professor Burckhardt as a Swiss Lord Runciman, come to mediate, to persuade, with French and British backing, the Poles to be reasonable, as the Czechs were reasonable last September...
...picking out Old Black Joe on the piano is a man having a mildly good time. But he would be having a better time if he were extracting great ranges of dynamics and tone color from his instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics...
...photographic scoop for Harris & Ewing, which has taken all the official Court pictures since Charles Evans Hughes became Chief Justice in 1930. Harris & Ewing's dignified Chief Photographer William Whipple Campbell is opposed to enlarging the Supreme Court because nine men make a better picture...
Director Victor Schertzinger has long held that the cinema is a better medium for opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting the fashion for innumerable musical films. Since all works of Gilbert & Sullivan (except The Pirates of Penzance) are in the public domain in the U. S., he could easily have produced The Mikado in Hollywood without paying royalties to the D'Oyly Carte Company, which owns the English rights...
Meanwhile, Bendix, recently re-elected president of Bendix Aviation Corp., which "last year netted $156,047, is looking forward to a better showing this year with things booming in the flying business. Of its stockholders, General Motors is the largest, holds 23.8% of its shares. What Ben Bendix's holdings amount to, the three plaintiffs hope to find out. Most of his friends, who are used to seeing him find a way out of difficulties, still doubted that Bendix would have to go through bankruptcy...