Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...
...South African Defense Minister Oswald Pirow, who recently arrived in London after conferring in Lisbon with Premier Dr. Antonio Salazar. He will shortly visit Belgium, where his reception will be cool (see p. 27), then Germany. Neither Portugal nor Belgium nor the Netherlands, for that matter, is much better able than was Czechoslovakia to disregard any "advice" which the Great Powers may give about parceling out colonial territory-if the Big Four themselves can agree. But Chamberlain, Hitler, Daladier and Mussolini risk becoming deadlocked in disagreements. This has been the fate of almost every Peace, Disarmament or Economic Conference...
...Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations...
With the reminder that "there are no bargains in used cars," only savings because of consumed mileage, Preceptor Bury advises used car buyers to: 1) buy from a reputable dealer with service facilities; 2) buy in the winter-prices are lower and good winter cars are usually better summer cars; 3) buy standard makes...
...Ghost Kenny, an Iowa-trained lawyer by profession, had visions of much better things. Last week, as 3,000 copies of Dougal Herr on Marriage, etc. were going through the bindery, Author Herr got a temporary restraining order to prevent the sale of his own book...