Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With regard to the Jews, the subject is very difficult, but it is better to put the matter frankly," said Insurance Manager H. C. Normington, last week. "In a great number of cases when Jews hire a car they pack it with families and children and drive off for a joyous day's outing in an irresponsible way, not caring a straw about the car, because it is insured. They hire a car for the day and get the absolute maximum...
...course, Edwin Anderson Alderman did not do all these things. But he took the stump, and his voice was sonorous. He asked for higher taxes and hence better schools. He got them, hissed though he was at first. Rockefeller and Rosenwald money began to go to work in the South. . . . And now magazine articlists call Dr. Alderman "the savior of the South...
...further thought, it seemed to observers that if it were necessary to truckle in this fashion to ignorant laymen, prayer might better be omitted at Republican Conventions. It would be Utopian to imagine that the hordes of greedy politicians gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...
...volume is more or less of a challenge to parents and teachers who believe that the hope of better education rests in private schools, the authors standing by the "better" public schools zealously...
...there is no such thing as democracy at Harvard? No, not so bad as that perhaps; but still we could have been better fitted with a realization that America is a democratic country. Harvard as we have known it, as we have composed it, has learned of democracy chiefly in the classrooms, and then often as a political theory of doubtful value. Let us again face facts! The tide of American democracy will rise high once more. Let Harvard prepare its men to rise with it. Let Harvard undergraduates show that tolerance which is the essence of individualistic democracy...