Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers in his State...
...second quarter opened with no better outlook. W. A. Beyer '32, Harvard's high scorer then dribbled half the length of the floor for the Crimson's first tally. Growing accustomed to the size of the court by that time, Harvard made a series of goals, but failed to equal Milton's mark by the end of the half, the schoolboys leading...
Last fortnight, Son Littauer made the crowning gift of a long series of philanthropies. He gave $1,000,000, promised more, to a foundation bearing his name, in "the cause of better understanding among all mankind," and for "altruistic activities of every nature, charitable, humanitarian, educational, religious and communal...
...Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor key in the story, and would better be read in its proper sequence...
...July 6: "Lloyd George and Lord Curzon* are fine representatives. Impudence and dignity are attributed to them by some foreign critics. But the impudence is so extraordinarily quick and intelligent and decided, the dignity so grand in manner and so imposing, that no country could wish for anything better in the way of representatives. . . . Curzon was born grandiloquent. . . . His unique achievement was to combine dignity with humor...