Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago thugs became fewer or less successful in comparison with 1926 records. The rate decreased from 16.7 to 13.13. New York (with a rate of 6.1) was better than Philadelphia, whose ratio was 8.4. Boston's score was almost exemplary...
Interviewed, Henry Ford said: "I want the English in their homes. I think Britain still has to learn that the secret of industrial success is to do a better job and do it with machinery and do it more cheaply. Machinery will win every time. ... I shall certainly make some business inquiries. I have long thought that England was the best place from which to serve world trade [in automobiles], but the imposition of tariffs and other obstacles have made it difficult for me to put my opinions to the test, so really I am over here to find...
Love and delight therein are better teachers of the art of painting than compulsion...
Cities are well enough, but in the railroad gangs and outlaw camps there's more joree-jaw (raillery, chaff), and, better still, the singing. "Speerchials" still persist...
...pseudo-austerities of his pilgrimage in Brother Saul, Author Byrne tells the tale of Miles O'Neill, a young Irish knight seeking fortune after being dispossessed at home. Palestine is technically at peace, between crusades. The saviors and guardians of the Lord's Sepulchre have nothing better to do than gamble extravagantly, dawdle quarrelsomely and bicker about Doctrine...