Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation, only to see them adopt 'traveling houses' finished and upholstered better than their own homes and furniture...
This incident and many another like it led even rival networks to pay tribute to "H. V." Kaltenborn last week. That he offered better comment on the crisis than any one else was because he also offered a better combination of talents. For one thing, he is German. His uncle, Lieut. General Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachen, was German War Minister for the years 1895-96. In Germany he himself is addressed as Baron. He knows German history and speaks the language (as well as French and Spanish) fluently. He knows news. He had 20 years' (1910-30) newspaper experience...
...chapters which tell what has been decoded from the tablets. Dr. Chiera gives a fascinating, chatty picture of the daily lives of the ancient Mesopotamian peoples, which he says are now better known than the ordinary lives of the later Greeks and Romans despite their elegant literature. Born to a Baptist minister in Italy in 1885, Dr. Chiera studied theology but plumped for archeology, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work...
...painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...
...gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...