Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have selected my man as carefully as I chose my first pair of long trousers. Of course I am for Governor Smith. I find that most intelligent and broadminded young people heartily approve of him. Briefly, Smith is more of a man than Hoover, has a better record and would make a better President."−Austin Lamont, youngest son of Thomas William Lament, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Lament Sr., is a Hooverite...
They treat me just like the other officers, only I have a better cabin...
...Bulgaria, sister and chatelaine of Bachelor Tsar Boris, was last week, the house guest at Balmoral, Scotland, of Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...
...language requirements at Harvard mean that all Harvard Seniors have a workable knowledge of one language and an elementary smattering of another? Their second question might well take the following form: Of what particular use is a smattering of one language to a Harvard Senior? Could he not better employ his time improving his knowledge of the first tongue he professes to knew? Such questions of course will not prevent many Freshmen today from proving their reading knowledge of French who never could nor ever will be able to read French, readily, nor will they save many others from wasting...
...that a small percentage of the better members of the freshman class have been pledged to sororities and fraternities the work of molding them to type will begin. The freshman will learn soon enough that organizations do not take all kinds of people but that in every one a definite type exists to which each new student must conform if he is to be a popular member inside the group...