Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look like being permanently the paupers of the English-speaking world," the bishop declared. "We need to restrict our population . . . We must preserve the better stocks in the population, and hinder the increase of the worse . . . We need to preserve the good-living, honest, hard-working classes in our people, whether they be rich or poor ... A time is quickly coming when sterilization of the unfit will have to be essential in our social organization...
...gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years...
...signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth $10,000,000. He thought that it was even a better bargain than the Stevens...
Things to Come. There are also a few other clouds ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines...