Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose President John Warren Davis lobbied in Washington for inclusion of Negroes in the program; and North Carolina's Agricultural & Technical College at Greensboro. If their students do as well in flying school as did 330 whites at 13 colleges which participated in experimental training classes last spring, better than 95% will be licensed, and Willa Brown's National Airmen's Association should grow apace. Of the 62,200 pilots (including students) now licensed by C. A. A. only 130 are Negroes...
...grey stone house in Ashdown Forest, about 40 miles south of London. In the car were two paperbound books: Winston Churchill's Step by Step, Dr. Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...
...production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little better off than she was before, for the Saar's 13,500,000 tons of coal are of a much better grade than Silesia...
Peace through the troubled waters safely into the harbour of tranquillity and better times." Even more confident of peace was Edward Lyndoe in The People: "Anyone who listens to, and believes, this War-by-the-end-of-August rubbish is beyond hope." In the Sunday Chronicle Petulengro said: "News from Germany will again cause concern, but the planets ruling this country will smooth over the difficulties...
...based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded its statement with a seven-point program for the church in time of war. It urged...