Word: neater
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...headlines, which were to be hand-lettered, will be printed, "giving the paper a neater appearance." The size of the columns has been increased and the editorial column widened. Inexpensive linoleum cuts will be used in place of line drawings...
...ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...
...hrer Adolf Hitler is no man to take unnecessary risks. If the German Navy were to steam into Danzig Harbor and forcefully take over the Free City, Britain's Peace Front might well become a War Front. A neater, less dangerous solution would be for the Danzig Senate simply to declare the City annexed to Germany. This would place Poland in the bad strategic position of having to take the initiative and becoming the technical aggressor. If Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain should get fainthearted about the Polish Guarantee, as the Nazis confidently expect, he would have a hole, albeit...
...vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater, straighter course than its circling predecessor, could not be rated a first-class gale...
Newest Soviet word to be endowed with pointed meaning is "culture." To attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...