Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suitable for PWA to undertake. He could report that of all the hundreds of millions loaned by PWA to States and municipalities, only $5,000,000 or 4/5% had been defaulted. Meantime, PWA had made $12,000,000 by selling at premium local bonds put up as loan collateral. Better than 80% of all bond issues proposed to local voters to pay their share (usually 55%) of PWA project costs, had been duly voted...
...good sense to stop trying for scoops and to study the temperament and philosophy of the German people. She made such a thorough job of it that she still knows Germany as well as she knows the U. S. Hostile critics have said she knows it better...
...Several of them have served as advisers for Harvard Dramatic Club plays in which the Dean of Radcliffe has allowed students to take part. Mr. Sullivan may be a better judge of the tone of the play than Mr. MacLeish, but in any case the question is just what Mr. Sullivan means by indecent...
...Nazi writers have succeeded little better than Nazi drill sergeants in filling rush orders for the model Nazi hero. In real life he might be a nuisance; in a book he is a bore...
...Bridegroom Cometh better dramatizes Mary's loss of faith than her rebirth. But it is provocative testimony to Author Frank's thesis that U. S. life is deeply grained with religious tradition...