Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though it far outboomed the Reed candidacy, the Smith candidacy was not yet avowed and authoritatively organized. The better the Reed machinery is built, the better it would serve Smith men when captured...
...Corinto, Nicaragua, and prepared to sail for Panama, "Leatherneck" Lejeune delivered heavy parting shots as follows: "The boys are well liked by the Nicaraguans. At every place I visited, Nicaraguans greeted me cordially. I was able to visit these places and get first hand information. I appreciate conditions better and in the future will be in a better position to help the boys...
...Other important factors of safety: more precise train operations, better signals, elimination of grade crossings, safety-first education...
...Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs: Racquet and Tennis), because he is a bigger and better man. Author Graham writes polite romance in mannered English and affected French. Disregarding the roses and raptures of vice, she paints, with a small brush dipt in gilt, the lilies and languors of virtue...
...further prescription of one who has confidence in the student's ability to think for himself that he should have experience in hearing, the arguments of extremists and weighing them; for if there is a point of a view which is attracting large groups of men ... there is no better time to become acquainted with it and appraise it than in the undergraduate days, when the whole world of ideas is a forum...