Word: better
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anti-Salooners were scarcely better pleased than Mr. Mellon. It makes Prohibition sound so hopeless to say it may not come true for 50 years. It makes Prohibition sound almost iniquitous to imply that its enforcement has fostered corruption...
...conceived the idea, last year, "that city managers generally are so engrossed in their own problems that they have little time to work out solutions of new problems of administration." Dr. Hatton went to Rochester, N. Y. and told his idea to George Eastman, rich and earnest friend of better city government...
...high seas (see page 12) the better part of the American Legion approached ever nearer the land wherein they will hold their monster congress under the great dome of the Trocadero, on the Right bank of the Seine, Paris. And as they came they surreptitiously glanced every now and then at a little of French Made Easy...
Proposed Treaty. It is argued that France will seek in the proposed new treaty to secure better terms for her luxury trade?per-fumes, toilet wares, gems, fake and real. In other words, what she is trying to force is the acceptance of the principle of reciprocity. If the U. S. refuses to lower its tariffs, the French rates will stand. The French rates now roughly approximate, on an ad valorem basis, those levied by the U. S. "Cut your tariffs and we will cut ours," is virtually the French slogan. However, the U. S. tariff law was expressly designed...
...Upon one occasion, at least, Alfonso was put to an extreme test of courage. Deciding to visit a leper colony in the midst of almost inaccessible mountains, he rode on horseback for the better part of two days to the dread hamlet. There he received a great welcome. Never, in the en tire history of the colony, had a sovereign been so bold. Advancing through the street, the King was suddenly confronted by a leper, who ran out from a nearby building. Leering, his evil, malicious-looking face contorted in an ugly menace, he held out an infected hand...