Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like Hooverism little better than Lowdenism were saying, last week, that Uninstruction and Coolidge-Anyway controlled between 200 and 300 delegates; that other claims were exaggerated; that the nomination was in nobody's bag unless, as Vermont last week said it hoped, in President Coolidge...
...Coolidge returned to Washington from Northampton, Mass. Her sick mother was better. . . . Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut and Florence Trumbull, their daughter, were invited to the White House. Mrs. Trumbull was attending a D. A. R. convention. . . . Persons who think President Coolidge should fly with Col. Lindbergh (see LETTERS) commented upon the matter-of-factness with which Governor Trumbull announced that he would fly to Washington from Hartford. He used a new Wasp-motored Ox-12 plane, piloted by an aide...
...afraid to want things because wages are low. Real prosperity depends on machinery. To those who say this will produce idleness, the reply is it's just the other way. It will produce work. For making machines means making more machines, and consequently you have more production and better wages...
...bedside bearing gifts and ready to commit other offices of friendship. Volpone's assistant in deception is the smart and fluttering Mosca; together, they are reaping a rich harvest until Volpone attempts to perform rape upon a friend's wife, sent to him for no better reason. Tried in court for this offense and adjudged innocent, Volpone tries another wily and audacious rascality, one which leads to his own undoing. Mosca, always a step ahead of his miserly master, makes himself Volpone's heir. Not, however, heir to his avarice; Mosca opens Volpone's chest...
College authorities who have deplored the over-emphasis on sport, which they largely attribute to the stimulus provided by competition and loyalty to alma mater, will now have a chance to see whether this same incentive applied to scholarship will act as an inspiration for better work in the classroom. We are a little skeptical but open-minded...