Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt was awarded the 1938 American Hebrew Medal "for outstanding service in promoting Better Understanding between Christians and Jews." Worse understanding between Americans and "Aryans" was the immediate result: the Nazi press flayed the President as a tool of Jewry...
Adolf Hitler's Ukrainian "liberation movement" might find easy conquests in Poland and Rumania, but undoubtedly it will have tough going in Russia. Not only has Dictator Stalin a better army than Poland or Rumania, but long ago he took pains to silence if not kill all Ukrainians inclined to demand "extra rights." As one of "Tsar" Vladimir's entourage last week pungently expressed it: "This is all very well, but what will Mr. Stalin...
...gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
...granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...
...probable that the average price of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange will be higher than it has been this year and that it will be above the level of 1935 and below that of 1936. . . . The year as a whole will almost surely be a better business year than this has been, but it is quite possible that the trend of affairs may be downward again before it draws toward its close...