Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last January, when Frank Murphy was appointed No. i law enforcement officer of the U. S., Tom Dewey was already better known as New York County's Republican prosecutor of crooked Democrats. Tom Dewey convicted Tammany Hall's notorious Jimmy Hines...
...present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured the horrors of Japanese bombing raids. Ahead of her, even if China should win, is only anonymous drudgery; if taken by the Japanese she will fare no better than the other human loot of captured cities...
There is an extremely large section of the British public that would like to see the Duke of Windsor at least officially recognized, or preferably welcomed home to a position of something better than degradation...
...this point of view was unendurable and soon Nazi and Fascist press puppets were swinging into action. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sprinkled Nazi papers with such ominous phrases as "impending decisions," the "war of tomorrow," the "mighty reckoning" to come. The Italians went Dr. Goebbels one better. Il Messagero, of Rome, flatly warned: "If within a certain time the democracies do not yield to councils of reason we go to war." The Fascist official newsorgan Resto del Carlino roared: "The time of reckoning is near. . . . They still deny us Tunis, Djibouti, Suez and also deny Danzig...
...three-hour Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress in a top-notch role, a drama that has real emotional uplift, those men better take a trip right up to a certain building on the Square and ask for Bette...