Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl to the state of mind where she will look at a dirty floor in her home, not with a groan and a thought of how she may escape tidying it up. On the contrary, she will look at a dirty floor with critical eye, think how much better it will be when it is cleaned up, and set to work with the newest thing in mops and cleansers to complete...
...criticism be found with "Hamlet" as played at the Arlington it would be only that the effort to preserve as much as possible the original atmosphere of the Shakespearean theatre by curtailing the intermissions might be better infringed upon to the extent of permitting at least one break of over three minutes...
...Many of the economic troubles of the Far East can be removed or moderated. Agricultural production can be much increased by better farming methods. There, will be a large commercial development in the Oriental countries ultimately, when political conditions are settled, but the possibilities of this development have been exaggerated, and business men must modify their over-optimistic views to conform to the actual facts...
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's tirade against the Tiger of Tammany and the ghost of Tweed incarnate in Governor Smith was not only untrue, it was political blunder of the worst kind. It is better for the opposition not to meet Smith face to face but rather to direct Fabian warfare on his friends, relations, and religion...
...Even more blameworthy than the doctrine of united improvement," he continued, "is that reasoning which states that, bad though the world may be, little can be done about it, and we can do no better than to let well enough alone. Supporters of this theory would bring speedy stagnation upon the world, than which nothing could be more fatal to future improvement...