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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outraged by Murray's settle-or-I-shoot tactics. Murray had sounded his war cry so furiously that now he could not retreat an inch. Nor did Murray want to face the slightest possibility of another labor leader (i.e., John Lewis or Walter Reuther) getting a better settlement than he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Pride & Prejudice | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: Damp Dry | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...West) might blame Communist successes on the Communists, who seduced Asia's millions, or on the people, who let themselves be seduced. But today, in Indo-China and elsewhere, it is clearly up to the West to keep Asia's people in line, by offering them a better life than the Communist tempters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Life with Father & Mother | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...infinitely better," concluded Tokyo Raider Jimmy Doolittle, "to avoid a war than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...negotiating the Franklin Park jungle, Schoeffler consumed only 22.40 minutes, better than par for the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts Wins Cross-Country Trouncing Varsity, 21-34 | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

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