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Word: bettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebrew and Left Wing members of your staff closely, as nobody is more vindictive than a single track Communist when someone tells the truth about their great & noble cause. For years all Communists have been rabid Coughlin haters and for good reason as nobody has done a better job of throwing the light of truth on these Christ haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...colonel takes command of the right wing of the expedition, assigns the left wing to the major, and for the centre can find nothing better than 3 sgts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

What manner of man is he? How did he keep himself from tossing about in the throes of sleep and scrambling the egg ? To what does TIME attribute this astonishing muscular control? From all appearances it would seem that Mr. Ryder is better fitted to show the public "How to Sleep" than Robert Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...What do you expect out of life?" cried he. "A job and enough money to live on. In Germany, there is work for everybody. The only thing you got better here is eats, and if you have no work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Going-back People | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Profound distrust of Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy inspired Mr. Garner, who thinks that the less Democrats say about it, the better for him or any other Democratic candidate for President in 1940. Profound conviction that the Democrats need no assistance in harming themselves continued to inspire G. O. P.'s McNary. Such remaining oppositionists as Missouri's fat Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, California's Hiram Johnson, constituted not a real Opposition but a malformed crew without plan or leader. Thus deprived of the full-dress performance previously advertised by Senator Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Without Jazz | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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