Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortyishness" not attractive? I firmly believe that this country is growing up, and in so doing can have other tastes than dewy-eyed youngsters on their screens . . . Miss Crawford's legions of followers are larger today than at any previous time, while her career has never been in better shape. Neither has her shape...
...origin of the evil...The Communists took advantage of the situation, but also the self-interest of some other quarters is much to blame. Capital was given remunerative prices; now it is time for workers to get the same." He proposed reforms in public medical care, better pension laws. And he ordered bus fares reduced...
Ditch-Digging & Plumbing. On the record, the odds were in their favor; better than 90% of George Junior Republic's boys & girls have grown up to be useful and successful citizens. Most of the Republic's actual operating expenses are covered by contributions from outside friends, plus $65 monthly tuition paid by the parents and guardians of the majority of the citizens...
Last week the Washington Daily News got around to a critique of one of the country's better-known piano players. Wrote News Guest Columnist (and Shoreham Hotel Bandleader) Barnee Breeskin, fresh from half an hour's "elbow-range" observation of Harry Truman...
Republic Steel Corp.'s thin-lipped President Charles M. White thinks there are better ways to settle labor disputes than through a fact-finding board appointed by the President. In Manhattan's federal courthouse one day last week he told the board...