Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second Governor Long on his first day in office put flowers on the grave of Brother Huey. Earl Long also conferred with New Orleans' Boss & Mayor Robert S. Maestri, who is the most potent politician left in Louisiana. For his motto Earl Long picked up a Biblical proverb: "Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right...
...Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his sons out of school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang Kai-shek read him out of the Party, arrested his followers...
Last week Dr. Israel tried to make up his mind whether it would be better to leave the 30-year-old lithopedian where it was or take it out. At latest reports he had not decided...
...case for the pacifist the Handbook states as follows: "He considers himself a patriot because he is confident that the nation will be better off if it adopts his method. . . . Against 'aggressors' he advocates the practice of nonviolence, seeking to remove the injustices which give rise to 'aggressors.'... He does not believe that Christianity, or democracy, or liberty, can be successfully defended by being compromised from the outset...
...while R. M. F. did better than others because of its union policy, the whole Colorado coal industry grew sick. The year that Miss Roche took over, a pipeline which had snaked its way from the natural gas fields of the Texas Panhandle went into operation. Owned jointly by Standard Oil of New Jersey, Sinclair Oil and Colorado Public Service Co., it knocked the spots off the coal business. In 1929, 9,934,000 tons of coal were mined in Colorado. By last year production had fallen...