Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autumn. As the leaves fall from the trees, to pile in crackling heaps on roadsides, the people of the artistic world gather themselves together, frayed with the merry ardours of the summer, into troublesome bunches, to be lifted and scattered by weird, enthusiastic winds. None should know all this better than Harold Fowler McCormick, the mildly extravagant reaper scion of Chicago...
There are Bat'a schools, Bat'a banks, Bat'a better baby clinics, Bat'a airplanes for the delivery of rush orders, and today, two Bat'a skyscrapers (the first in Czechoslovakia) are about to be built in Prague...
Violet May, at No. 3, played better polo than the other Canadians; rode better and handled her stick almost as well as the Prince of Wales does. Mrs. James Hewlett, at No. 3, scored four of the five U. S. goals and played better than anyone else in the match. Neither of the Lanier girls, Sally & Becky, scored against Canada...
...superiority. But, at Hot Springs last week, there were six onetime champions in the medal play and several more future champions. One of these many favorites, it was safe to say, would win the finals. Such proved to be the case when Virginia Van Wie, who uses a mashie better than any other woman golfer, came up against Glenna Collett in the last round...
...father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without the aid of their sporting instincts. When she drives about in her blue Mercer, a police dog named after a wolf in a story by Ernest Seton Thompson, Lobo, sits up beside her; she leaves her fox-terrier at home...