Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bullitt as the first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Entering upon his job there with high hopes of cultivating real U. S.-Russian friendship, the Ambassador experienced a long series of personal disappointments and disillusionments. In 1936 he got himself transferred to Paris, likes it much better...
...Joseph Nail, Conservative. Defending Sir Reginald was Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. Sir Reginald flew to London, denied he intended to resign, with military gruffness termed the M.P.s' attack "a lot of idle chatter. More like village gossip. Pity they haven't anything better...
Newsman MacMurphy's fortunes advanced. Finally he became the News's business manager. Every March 25 his St. Dismas piece crept a little nearer the front page. And on that day MacMurphy would write again the homely praises of his favorite saint: "There are so many better advertised saints, all specialists, that few mortals bother much with this hoodlum saint, who roams the outfield of eternity, making shoestring catches of souls-a saint who has no following to speak of, no medals, no propaganda. There's nothing to recommend him, really, except the fact that...
Part of this rosy picture has been due to a midwinter anthracite boom, and in Scranton, 19 miles away, retail trade has been a little better than in Wilkes-Barre. But this was pretty cold comfort to U. S. newspaper publishers, whose associations remained discreetly silent on the matter last week...
...School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the Medical School (now retired). They decided that physical scientists and social scientists working together might start a new science of human relations whereby man could learn to be happier and on better terms with his fellows...