Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
...going to bomb Berlin or not. If he does the consequences will go far beyond our maddest intentions and will be quite different from anything either we or Herr Hitler contemplate. If not, the sooner we stop the war and arrange for the tabling of our respective grievances. . . the better. . . . Our Premier's pledge to Poland was quite explicit. We were to come to her aid 'with all our resources,' which meant that when the first German soldier crossed the Polish frontier the Royal Air Force would bomb Berlin...
...while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
...rose in the Royal Air Force, married Olive Tennyson Foster, of Back Bay, Boston, and settled down to a life of thorough work and enthusiastic gardening. Now he is red-faced, grey-haired, tightlipped, taciturn, tough-a model of a gallant airman. The only thing he loves better than a party is a party from which newspapermen are barred. There is, however, one thing he hates more than a reporter-any man who shows...
Rockets work by the principle of recoil: the combustion of fuel under pressure drives a jet of gas particles to the rear, and the recoil sends the rockets ahead. Rockets were used as war missiles in the early 19th Century. They had ranges up to two miles, better than the artillery of that day, were discarded only with the advent of breech-loading guns with longer ranges and rifled barrels...