Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This could be improved to make better reading for a Nebraska graduate...
Perceiving the timeliness of working with the Better Element, the Thompsonian school superintendent, William J. Bogan, made a belated effort to close various "ice cream parlors" which sell gin & sundries to high school minors. He suggested that members of the Parent-Teacher association become "vigilantes...
...President Coolidge, though in more vigorous language, Dr. Stresemann added: "It is cheap to sneer at the Kellogg Pact renouncing war. The Kellogg pact is what the governments and peoples themselves will make of it. I do not doubt that history will see in it an important advance toward better international relations...
...dance-hall hostess who has the dope about the innocent boy's love affair with a little cabaret girl (Olive Borden). What she tells one of the reporters, constitutes the plot of a well-acted, fairly exciting picture proving principally that Olive Borden is a better actress than most people have believed. Best shot: New Year's day in San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Mercury, Editor H. L. Mencken pointed out editorially in the December number what a bright, good, competent job has been done; how happy all the intelligent readers of the magazine are (all of them being intelligent); how tirelessly he will strive to make the Mercury brighter and bigger and better...