Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body to shadowbox with a nonexistent peril and write about the freedom of the press as if a glowering giant were awaiting an opportunity to club it into helplessness...
Sure enough, he wrote last week in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, most cases of this form of goitre on which he could lay his hands were also chronic sufferers from tonsillitis. He induced some of these patients to have their tonsils removed. Every one felt better. Most of those who also had their overactive thyroids excised recovered, lost their distressing excitability...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...
They wrote Were We Guinea Pigs?* said the 55 authors, aged 17 to 18, because progressive education "is often misunderstood." In clear though slightly stiff language they told who they were (with charts)-a group with better than average intelligence, most with family incomes over $4,000. They also described their teachers-"a very unusual collection. . . . One gentleman spends his summers paddling around Europe in a canoe. . . . We have fine co-operation among our faculty. Some of our teachers have got along together so well that they have married...
Miss Ogden concludes: "Today the chances are that better education [than Society Girls get in finishing schools] is available to their poor relations...