Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to strike his first blow. March called on Heineman in Madrid and warned that he had better let him take over Barcelona Traction, in return for a minority interest, or suffer the consequences. Heineman refused...
...newspaper offices throughout the South last week, editors and publishers were reading a new, blunt-spoken pamphlet on one of their major ethical problems. Its title: Race in the News. Its thesis: many Southern editors still pander to anti-Negro prejudice, thereby ignore their responsibility for better newspapers and better race relations...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...
...prices have never been supported, but as the biggest cattle shipments in a year poured into Kansas City last week, and beef prices began to drop, CCC officials shuddered at one cowman's threat: "If they are going to support wheat and hogs, then by God they had better do something for beef...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...