Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...futility of the suggesting placard and the dark and glowering glance has been proven again by the breaking out of another epidemic of cooperative study in the Reading Room of the Library. Two heads are not better than one when a constant flow of whispers pours from them and disturbs their neighbors. The cause of education is rendered an incessant lip service by these individuals, who are innocent of the knowledge that this method survives in the secondary schools of China, but has a place only in the elementary division of American schooling...
...eight may enter the quarter final round, decision has been made to eliminate one of the two clubs, Chafee and Pound, tied for the last entry position in the next series. In order to do this, a committee of the Board of Advisors will pass upon and select the better of the two sets of briefs submitted by the two tying clubs for the next debate. The team submitting the better briefs will then take its place with the other seven winning clubs at the start of the quarter finals. The nine surviving clubs in the order, in which they...
...does seem too bad to dirty the linen. Writers can wash it in public, but most people rounding the curve and seeing the straight stretch are too weak not to determine to keep the sprint unimpeded. And so they make resolutions, and are the better for it; and break them and are the worse for it. It is wearying to be platitudinous on this subject but the only way not to be trite, and to beat the humorist is to make no resolutions, and then stick to them...
...Sandino rebels are said to have been better armed, uniformed, and disciplined than hitherto...
...three times since the establishment of your magazine, I have felt impelled to write and congratulate you on the place you fill in my reading life. These letters always have been, frankly, applause for your initiative and for the maintenance of your ideals. The more I read TIME, the better I like it and even at the risk of dangerous repetition, I again salute...