Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "Soup" editorial* was nearly as fine as the soup; for the soup is perfect, but the editorial is faulty. You describe the farmers, "swinging their sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload...
...Dawes in London and presently it was definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed by its bigger, better corollary: Secretary of State Stimson was enabled to announce that the details remaining for the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald to discuss are so few, so sure of settlement, that the U. S. and England will be ready to appear together at a naval conference of the five Sea Powers...
...Guests at the White House for dinner one evening were three people who once lived there several years?Theodore, Kermit and Alice Roosevelt (now Longworth.) Theodore said that he was studying Spanish, not in order the better to converse with the President who knows it well, but in preparation for his duties as Governor of Porto Rico, in which the Senate had just confirmed...
...interesting comment. Harvard, 1636, the first college to be established in America, naturally followed the ideas of the old world and has never forgotten her heritage. Although rebellious at times, and always inclined, to the experimental in education, she has ever found the old ways better in the fundamental principles. The University of Chicago, founded upon Western ideas, is still an overgrown child, conscious of its own physical strength but lacking in the historical background, traditions, and heritage of the older American schools...
...laws of trade. He can only touch the outer circle in medicine or law. The fields have become too large. If he attempts too much, he scatters his energies. If he concentrates too much, he becomes a specialist with narrow horizon or a cog in complicated machinery. Better the ability given by the old training, to master any subject, than a restricted knowledge of a single field...