Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure to his delight in always finding that the U. S. Government is in better financial condition than he had predicted...
From grave, Cyclopean Lord Nelson, perched on his column in Trafalgar Square, to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London is full of statuary. Possibly no statues in the whole murky city are better known or more consistently photographed than the two living statues that guard Britain's War Office-the living mounted sentries of the Horse Guards. Splendid, remote and eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop...
...solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair in his native Scotland with a long story about how he had passed the evening with Mary Queen of Scots and would have brought her along to the fair, only she vanished...
...Sweet" series, the publicity war has already produced an astonishing number of alarms and excursions. Indignant outbursts have proceeded from Candy Weekly and other sugar centres. Competing cigarets have rebuked the Lucky campaign.* Advertising itself has engaged in an intermural struggle over "tainted" v. "honest" testimonials. The Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission have been invited to act as advertising disinfectants. Object of last week's attack, however, was not directly American Tobacco Co., but Merlin Aylesworth's National Broadcasting Co., nation-wide radio chain. Possibly despairing in their endeavor to convince the Lucky Strike makers...
Perhaps the most frequently discussed aspect of the House Plan has been the probable status of the fraternities when Yale becomes small and intimate again. The alarmists put their heads together and imagine all sorts of dire results, the intellegentsia see a better future than a past for these much-maligned institutions, the Indifferents say: "What...