Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department's most valued diplomats. He had served as Undersecretary of State under Charles Evans Hughes and was U. S. Ambassador to Belgium before stepping down...
...American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels was about two pecks better than what Holmes had husked. Wild Clyde Tague of Guthrie County, Iowa, came in third...
...suppose it is natural that my English friends generally, from the King [Edward VII] down, should think I was under the influence of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II], but you ought to know better, old man. There is much that I admire about the Kaiser . . . [but] he himself is altogether too jumpy, too volatile in his policies, too lacking in the power of continuous and sustained thought and action for me to feel that he is in any way such a man as, for instance, Taft or Root. You might as well talk of my being under the influence of Bryan...
...reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...
...prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop's; his moral position better. The communion service was shifted to the chapel of Union Theological Seminary; the other sessions of the league were held at St. George...