Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those members of the Bourgeoisie who intend to dust off their full-dress clothes should leave them in dark clothes or, better still, sell them to those Jews who tragic in second-hand clothes," the Pepolo Di Trieste said...
Only recently, Vag has discovered a new out let for his train-love. To him the Massachusetts Model Railroad Society's hangout on Atlantic Avenue is a wonderful place--even better than South Station, his erstwhile favorite. A second-rate poet whose name Vag cannot recall likened the world to a room in the house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds...
...that New Deal legislation is liberal in every sense of the word, that Republicans are die-hard conservatives. The Crimson forces contended that the "new" Republican party is included with new blood of liberal tendencies, and that although New Deal legislation was liberal at its inception, it is today better characterized as political scandal designed to further the Democrats in power...
Montaigne had been a Christian, one of the Millions of men who over a span of two millenniums had flocked to the banner of "the stranger of Galilee." And never was the word "stranger" better used than in describing Jesus, whose followers could not decide if He was God or man or prophet or fanatic, whose teachings had inspired mystics and had been endorsed by cold logicians. Perhaps His words pointed the way to Veritas. The rich verses of the King James version flowed through the Vagabond's mind...
Although he doesn't intend to assign additional men to the House district, Apted said that special locks or higher grills would probably be installed where needed. Certain that the crimes were perpetrated by youthful vandals, the Yard policy forces are on the lookout for the better known younger Cantabrigians...