Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better, but it buzzed more...
...Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
...theory, education is what gives the common man the ever increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of education...
...Parisians basked in spring's first sunny warmth, Bruce stood by his broad window in the U.S. Embassy Annex overlooking the Place de la Concorde. "The trouble with this weather," he complained lightly, "is that it makes the French too optimistic about their economy. Rain would be better for their crops." Many an EGA man believed that France, with her chronic slipshod finances and Communist sabotage, was ECA's biggest problem. Bruce was sure France could also be ECA's biggest triumph...
...always wanted most of all to write plays," confessed Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind of fellow you can marry, who is ready to settle down . . . while the theater-that's the handsome guy who's a lot of fun, but you'd be a fool to marry...