Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai dispatches meanwhile reported better news of China's "invigorated" airforce. Some of the Japanese forces which had reached the north bank of the Yellow River in their advance toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...
True religious experience, however, proved salutary for Dr. Jung's patient of the 400 dreams. An intelligent man, the patient believed he was irreligious, but Dr. Jung knew better. The dream of the mosquelike church (preceded and followed by equally revealing dream-imagery) demonstrated an inner approval of the Church coupled with a pagan point of view, to which the woman, "a very important minority"-the anima or feminine side of the man's unconscious-makes vigorous objection. In a subsequent climax-dream the patient felt an "impression of the most sublime harmony," which marked the turning point...
Sally, Irene and Mary (Twentieth Century-Fox) lacks the timely zing that makes most Darryl Zanuck cinemusicals seem a little better than they are. Comic interludes are contributed by horn-beaked Jimmy Durante, startled-looking Fred Allen. Of a half-dozen tunes shared by Songstress Alice Faye and Crooner Husband Tony Martin, the Gordon-Revel Sweet As a Song is best...
...neither of these clandestine sheets cropped up in such strange surroundings as did Better Times, published monthly since December by the "Communist Party Units of the New York Times.'" Though it is unlikely that there are more than a handful of Communist Party members among the capitalistic Times's 3,000-odd employes, Better Times is eagerly read by hundreds of chuckling readers, times employes gobble up such vilifying stories as these in the current issue: "SpeedUp and Spies Drive Ad Solicitors," "Mexican Cabinet Officer Attacks Times Stories as Deliberate Lies; Sees Paper Helping Oil Companies...