Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their children were placed in better than average homes. After one and one-half to six years, the children were tested and their average I. Q. was 116, equal to the average for children of university professors. More remarkable still, 30 children in the group, who had feeble-minded mothers, also had an average...
...Culler also pointed out last week that diabetic humans find they can hear better after a dose of insulin has reduced their blood-sugar level. He also declared that normal people hear less well after their sugar level has been raised by "a good square meal." This would indicate that, for best reception, speeches should be made before banquets instead of afterward...
...into use, then hearing Banker David Wood rebut with the standard argument that taxing tax-exempts would violate State rights, the assembled investment bankers resolved in favor of eliminating tax exemption on future issues. But this was no New Deal yessing, for banishing of tax exemption would mean a better market for ordinary corporate bond issues I. B. A. members underwrite...
...with extraordinary imaginative flights, consequently stands out, not only as a novel but as the best piece of reporting that has come out of the Spanish Civil War. And as such it illustrates Malraux's theory of fiction-that the real news of the modern world can be better told in novels than in newspapers; that novelists, if they are to save their art from puerility, must fight for their beliefs, take part in events, and in lulls between the battles jot down their records of what they have actually seen...
...Malraux met Ernest Hemingway in Spain (so the story goes), they divided the Spanish Civil War between them. Malraux took the story up to the Loyalist victory at Guadalajara, Hemingway after it. From the Loyalist as well as the literary viewpoint, it looks as if Malraux got the better part. For while Hemingway's section (not yet published) is to deal with the clash of the two organized armies. Malraux's, covering the early period, is a swift, tumultuous affair of assaults on barracks, street-fighting, bombing, sniping, chaos, breakneck confusion, which somehow resolves itself into organization...