Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little readers cry for them, and so do the Greek newsagents--so if you don't, you can take a run to the Art Museum, and pick out what you do like. You will run a long way before you find in any December magazine whatever a better idea than Hichborn has found for his full page cartoon, "The Three Wise Men." That is Punch, at Punch's best--not in technique, but in idea...
...Labor has never had a better friend' than just before election when every "bundle stiff" shakes the "rattlers" and hits for a road camp where he stays until election day. After that the roads had to wait another two years for a gubernatorial contest before receiving any attention...
...progress of the two sons who were dashing Londonward. Edward of Wales reached London Tuesday night, after having made the 6,450 miles from the African jungles in nine days, twelve hours. Soon after his eldest son reached his bedside, the King was reported in a bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed...
...infection he would have died within ten days. The authoritative British Medical Journal told in simple, vivid language of the new means used to strengthen and increase the number of white corpuscles in the blood royal: "The infection belongs to a type with which clinicians have become much better acquainted in the last ten years. . . . There is no set duration and no crisis. . . . There are phases or chapters on infection . . . and . . . the temperature settles slowly and intermittently...
Most Congressmen know Dr. Cumming personally. Few men are better known in Washington. When a telephone rings, and his soft voice asks something for his Public Health Service, he gets that something very quickly...