Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunchers well knew, Senator Johnson had been fighting for years to have the Federal Government block up the Colorado River with the Boulder Dam (between Arizona and Nevada) and give Los Angeles a bigger & better water and power supply. They also knew that the Issue forecast by Senator Johnson is against what is commonly called the Power Trust, meaning the potent, propagandizing private interests who have sought to prevent the erection of a Federal project on the Colorado...
...plan of it was bad. Nominee Smith approved the World's interpretation. Mr. Peek, now a Smith man, said nothing. Chairman Raskob announced the formation of a committee to supervise a strenuous fight for Corn Belt votes. It was also announced that the Democrats were in a better position to win one or more of the 13 Midwestern farm states. The Republicans announced that they were not worried...
...tourists were titillated, last week, by blatant announcement heralding the première of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
...rebuttal is that vegetables are too expensive in Ireland for the poor or ordinarily well-to-do. But the criticisms of poor cookery and housekeeping went uncontroverted. The women's association has started to get better domestic science instruction in the Irish schools, to induce housewives again to bake at home...
Drooping over the paper he wrote too: "I am most heartbroken over the necessity, but with no more resources it is better this way. . . . My family is upstairs, quiet...