Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resources of the country is obviously an essential to prosperity, and the policy of the United States has been directed toward this end. Whatever slight injustice may be done a discontented general whose revolt might have succeeded but for our influence, the people at large are certainly far better off and there is always hope that the day when elections will mean something may come in the near future and take away the necessity for the more violent expressions of opinion...
...that needed attention were somehow attended to. And all the time there was the glory of being important. Countless little dangles hung from his watch chain and his name was on countless lips as well as often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful thing about them; they always had something to say, and then, they laughed so easily...
...Putnam will be out of it. The team will feel his loss, of course. But I think the men will play better hockey than they did in the last game. We had five new men in that game who had never faced Yale on the ice, four of them had never played Yale in any sport. Now that they're a bit experienced, they'll show up better. It will be a hard contest, but I look for a Harvard victory...
...examination was divided into two parts, a list of identifications and a number of essay topics. Dr. Sly revealed the fact that the essay topics were handled considerably better than the identifications...
Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...