Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Board's credit was being extended only in cases where loans were otherwise unavailable; they said Congress had intended something quite different. He replied: "I have read the bill about 20 times and I don't understand yet. If anyone of you understand, you are better men than...
Russian calendar-makers last week announced that the names of the days and months would not be changed for the present: Soviet weekdays will remain Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then Monday again "until something better is thought of." Soviet editors and minor officials hastened to think of something better, suggested naming the days numerically, changing Monday, Tuesday, to Oneday, Twoday, or more romantically adopting such strictly Communist titles as Youthday, Womanday, Sovday (Soviet Day) Comday (Comintern...
...family the princes who have no capacity and no ability have nothing to do with the government service. I, therefore, take the opportunity of advising that you who are fortunate to be in this honorable family should in the future try to better yourselves by special qualifications...
This year, more than ever before, the need for bigger and better classroom space has become painfully apparent. During the past week a distinguished visiting professor has been forced to change the meeting place of his course three times, due to the inadequacy of the recitation rooms in Sever Hall. In Harvard Hall there are men sitting on the floor and in the window-sills in one course, while many other courses are reciting in rooms filled far beyond their normal capacity...
...failure until they experience the temporary influence of college. A youth of eighteen or twenty who prides himself on being one of these types will not be convinced of his error, if it be an error, by merely doing as he wishes for a year before college. And better that he be a misfit for a few years in college and find himself at last, than that he be a misfit for life. What he judges to be strong points not to be chipped off by the college process of being rounded into a billiard ball may be gaps which...