Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal arguments of the affirmative were that women would be able to express their personalities more freely if freed from the dictates of fashion. Then clothes would be better made and last longer; whereas the time now spent in shopping would be devoted to more constructive activity. Mass production of dresses would be displaced by the couturier system as in Paris, with resulting better fitting clothes...
...Jayvees, sparked by Vic Marans, managed to stave off the Terrier cubs for better than 30 minutes, but then the visitors, led by their captain. Dud Purbeck, spurted and put the game on ice. These same Boston University Freshmen hold the only victory scored over Skip Stahley's Yardling cagers thus far this year...
...Manila, Philippine Islands, has been studying palm-reading for nearly four years. "Although I used to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence, there is now a lot of prophet in our business," Edmunds said, as he fingered his slim moustache. "It really comes in handy, especially at the better parties...
...respect tough, small Pablo Picasso's insistent assertion of his own independence, to find in it an example of commonplace psychological and artistic health. But with equal sobriety they feel that the time is past for amazement, shock or swoon over Pablo Picasso; that young painters had better know their own minds, their craft and their time as well as Picassian esthetics. Says Picasso, bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? Whereas with painting, people...
...years ago Ralph Bates was just another energetic, down-and-out, class-conscious workingman, while Ernest Hemingway was an energetic, up-and-coming, self-conscious writing man. Today, Bates's Spanish civil war stories are better than Hemingway's. Bates lived revolution; when it came, he could almost write it with his eyes shut...