Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: You quote Earl Baldwin of Bewdley as saying in two long paragraphs and 175 words (TIME, Aug. 28-Education) what Maxwell Anderson made Washington say better in the play about Valley Forge in 15 words: "This liberty will look easy by and by-when nobody dies to get it." JOHN J. LIPSEY Colorado Springs, Colo...
...better it is said (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934), the truer...
...TIME dated Aug. 14, the items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some outlandish place again.) Please. R. T. GRIFFITH Pittsburgh...
...Assistant to the Secretary (at $10,000 a year) in charge of Neutrality operations having to do with shipping, tall, knife-nosed, wealthy Basil Harris quit his vice-presidency of U. S. Lines in Manhattan. The better to watch over U. S. ports, he also became Commissioner of Customs, succeeding venerable (80), goateed James Henry Moyle of Utah. Spry Mr. Moyle during part of World War I was an Assistant Secretary. Last week he was gently upped to Assistant again, temporarily without portfolio...
Contemporaries sometimes accused Boone of being a misanthrope who liked Indians better than white men. Biographer Bakeless agrees with Boone that this was a libel. But if Boone got a reputation for claustrophobia it was his own fault; he himself made up most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where...