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Word: bettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus t over m equals Humorture. Maybe the experts can work out a better equation but I doubt they'll improve on the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...only with the stronger battalions. He is also with those of better nerves. We have had better nerves and will keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: There Benes, Here !! | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...ballot. The Republican organization put up Milwaukee Manufacturer Julius Heil. Democratic chieftains and the State New Deal machine got behind young Jerome Fox, who resigned his job as an HOLC attorney to make the race as a Roosevelt man. Coalitionist Henry, no New Dealer and deeming the Republican nomination better than the Democratic, thereupon called on his Democratic supporters to vote for him in the Republican primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Wisconsin Obstacle Race | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic brutality" were cut out of the printed copies distributed to the press. Czechoslovakia's official representative, wiry little Dr. Emanuel Slechta, limited himself to a deft understatement which brought down the house: "The world is in a great need of better international management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Politics & Statistics | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Since the death last year of Dexter Fellows, circus pressagent extraordinary and perennial, the literature of the circus has seemed as subdued as mourning. With Big Show, the first novel of a circus-loving staff member of The New Yorker, the circus goes to town in bigger & better literary spangles than ever. A three-ring romance presenting a tender love story, an engaging dog story and authentic circus life, Big Show shares with Dexter Fellows' ballyhoo the distinction of being frequently livelier than the circus itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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