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Word: betterment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Better check up before casting slurs like this on the Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...study of the abilities of 103 W.P.A. workers to predict their activities, the book concludes that women orr more than men, younger age groups orr more than older groups, single men more than married, poorer classes more than better ones, Jews more than Catholics, and Catholics more than Protestants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLEUTHS' METHODS ARE DISCREDITED BY SOROKIN | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...characterized the academic system of Brookline High as one in which "half the students are plowed under to make the other half grow better." He added that many Brookline High students get into Harvard "in spite of their preparation", not because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Office Seeker Pulverizes Political Enemies | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

When he got back to the East he went to Vermont, got a job acting in a summer camp, followed it by a bit part in a road company. A meeting with Clifford Odets led to better parts in Group Theatre productions, the leading role in Having Wonderful Time, a part in Golden Boy, which got him his Hollywood contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Innocent and Damned | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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