Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced with the statement that perhaps those in the show business should attempt to elevate the tastes of their audiences rather than cater to them, she replied, "You and I know better...
...insurgent whoever rebels against the new tyranny, Cohen, whatever his means and manner, has attempted to reassert our liberties and it is inappropriate. I think, for the CRIMSON or for anyone else to assume an amused and detached attitude toward the slightly ridiculous scuffle in Harvard Square. It is better for our self-respect to protest, instead of smiling when liberties which once meant much to us, are taken away; and we have not yet given our souls over to the custody of the police, whatever the appearances may be. Sincerely, Brinckerhoff Jackson...
...history of the last century and a half has shown that whenever a large proportion of the lower classes have risen up to demand better conditions, the prosperous classes have cried "communism". History has also shown that desire for true communism is not compatible with a good living. The textile worker in the South is not really a communist of the Brook Farm or Bolshevik type. It is merely the American love of labels that makes him one. When the level of living conditions in the South has been raised to that of the rest of the country, the cause...
...hoped that the committee's plan of several short tenures of the chair during the first few years of its existence will bring to light some man worthy and willing to take a permanent place in this position: The sooner such a permanent incumbent on be found the better, for the supply of possible candidates for such a place is strictly limited as the difficulty of annually finding men for the Norton chair has shown. And it is only through a somewhat continuous exertion of their influence that even the greatest of men may make their mark upon any intellectual...
...Reference to Briton Hadden, Founder & Editor of TIME, who died aged 31 (TIME, March 11). Shortly before his fatal illness, Editor Hadden had been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...