Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give four per cent of your news space to the same thing, only doing it better. Have your editors become addlepated? You denounce with gusto the mistake of the daily press but are not satisfied until you have advertised Mlle Roseray and parboiled reporters for two and a half columns...
...Presidential possibilities seldom talk for publication after they have become possibilities. In Smith's case, however, this much is true: this man has been governor of the most populous State in the Union for eight of the last ten years. And no one can fill that office for the better part of a decade without encountering at least a few issues which are national as well as local...
...becoming more and more obvious that Horatio Alger was born long before his time. This ingenious concocter of a better class of dime novels furnished vicarious thrills by mere inherited dukedoms and paltry thousands of dollars--and no doubt shuddered to think what an exaggerator he was. But the Luke Larkins of his fiction are simply run off their feet by the financial leaders of this...
...meat were they to eat for fourteen days. If at the end of a fortnight, none had scurvy, if in no case were legs and thighs splotched with extravasated blood, if no gums swelled spongily, if mucous membranes oozed no blood (scorbutic symptoms), then Explorer Stefansson would have proved-better than biologists could have proved in experiments with rats-that meat, at least freshly killed meat, contains Vitamin C and prevents scurvy, scourge of seafarers and Arctic explorers...
...stockholders have manifested a noticeable spirit of criticism because of the failure of your corporation to progress to the point of giving them a return upon their investment and for other reasons. This feeling of unfriendliness upon the part of stockholders has exerted a hampering influence in obtaining better distributors and dealers for our products. It has slowed up the sale of our cars, it has furnished the basis for the disparaging statements of outsiders...