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Word: bettered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied shot was fired, many thoughtful Britons began worrying less about what war would be like than about what possible peace could follow it. Many a Briton did not expect young men going to the front to refrain from asking: What are we fighting for? Can we have something better this time than another Versailles and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

March Into: "That is the same thing. At least, it had better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Merry Christman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Maria Magdalene Sieber, better known as Marlene Dietrich, cast her first vote as a U. S. citizen in Beverly Hills, Calif. Asked how she voted on Ham & Eggs, Marlene said: "When I became a citizen they told me my vote was sacred-and for that reason I don't want to tell how I voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...into your faces and wait for God to tell me what to say." He sings hymns in a sweet tenor, solo and with the congregation. He threatens no hell fire, for he believes that "it's no good to scold poor sinners. I know now it's better to love them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: For Pagans | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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