Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the doctor proudly pulled up all the beads, and gave Mrs. Gregory a juicy steak with no wires attached. "I can swallow better now than I have ever been able to,"; cried joyful Agnes Gregory as she chewed on the first steak she ever ate. With periodical bead-treatments and swallows of solid food, the lining of Mrs.Gregory's gullet should stay where it belongs...
...English source," said the release, "reports that stonecutters erecting huge masonry structures in Great Britain were examined for silicosis. It was found: 1) that the clean shaven men suffered by far the most; 2) that men with strong mustaches fared much better; 3) that men with full bushy beards and mustaches were practically immune, the reason being obvious that the moisture of the breath, combined with the hair, formed a most efficient respirator [strainer] and one that the men could not take...
...world's a stage," says Elizabeth Bowen, "there must be some wonderful parts." The tragedy of John Charles Frémont was not that he could not fill the roles, or that he did not enjoy them; he had all the equipment of a leading actor, better sets and a better leading lady than most. But he invariably missed his cues. He was born too early and died too late, married too young and learned too easily, succeeded too soon and then waited too long. Frémont, as he appears in Allan Nevins' biography, had no sense...
Navy completely outshone her 11 rivals in the recent fencing intercollegiate at New York City, taking five of the seven crowns. The Crimson swordsmen could do no better than sixth place in the final three-weapon standing...
...breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling's celebrated water-boy; and Mr. Kipling himself even pops into the picture on occasion. The film is entertaining, and far better than the latest Charlie Chan affair--which pleases only the yelling school kids in the balcony...