Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handed him my drawing and said, 'I hope you won't consider this flattering.' You see, I wanted to put him at his ease about it. I didn't want him to think the portrait looked any better than he looked...
...Well, if you don't like that one, see what you think of the next one," continued the Governor. "If the Democrats do not nominate Al Smith they had better disband or else reorganize the party as a free trade council of the Ku Klux Klan with Tom Heflin as head Kleagle...
...University horsemen beat Yale at New Haven, on February 22, by the score of 15 1-2 to 9 1-2. In that game the Crimson riders were using strange ponies in a small ring with poor footing. The larger and better surfaced ring of the Commonwealth Armory should draw better polo from both teams, although Harvard, having the advantage of considerable practice in the Armory, should benefit the most...
...note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet methods...
Shocked by the insouciance of Mrs. Russell's "experimental" attitude toward sex, startled into realization of what polyandry might mean if honestly recognized at a co-educational institution, Students Frederick Hyslop and Frederick Joachim of the Forum went to President Glenn Frank, asked him what they had better...