Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along the way. Nor need we look for immediate political or economic results, except in so far as the visit influences Mr. Hoover's policy and that of his government after March 4 next. The development of American trade depends largely, if not solely, upon our ability to offer better goods at better prices. And improved political relations depend upon the policy of our Department of State in Caribbean America, and upon the way our Congress manipulates the American tariff...
...hope is that conditions in this country -where there are more mentally sick in asylums than there are students in colleges-will be better appreciated, that more people will read ''A Mind That Found Itself," a true story of absorbing interest, and learn what wide movement also started by Mr. Beers will receive the attention, sympathy and support it deserves...
...crossing with an awful shrill, The switchman knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones. He pulled lip within two miles of the place, Number four stared him right in the face, Turned to the fireman, said; "Boys, you'd better...
...Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In the second act there is a party at which the engagement is announced; and Linda, the charming sister, invites friends whom she likes better than the correct friends of her family to a private party of her own which she arranges, with bottles of whiskey, in what used to be the nursery. Here two fantastically funny friends of hers invent flowering amusements; then the music box plays and Linda dances with Johnny Case...
...contest between two men, one event may be decisive. In a contest of teams, the teams must play each other many times before it is possible to decide which one is better. Thus it is impossible to decide which football team is the U. S. champion and even sectional championships are usually disputed. If one victory is taken as proof of superiority, it might be shown that a grammar school eleven in Eastern Iowa has the most powerful football team in the U. S. If not, it is only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes...