Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive (secret) doings of the Senate are constantly leaking into the newspapers. And last week, the Senate's wives demonstrated that they were no better than their husbands at keeping secrets...
...raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief? and tariff...
...except the first, had at least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving? At best the Peace Museum is a feeble hope; at worst, a jest...
Whatever name they use, it's just a dungeon better equipped--to torture...
...deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned by his believing classmates, his allowance cut-off mayhap from home, he is left only the chance of staying in a game...