Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-elect Hoover selects Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, he will bring to that Department a man of broad experience and tremendous capacity for constructive work. No one knows better than Mr. Hoover that he could not make a "yes-man" out of Dr. Wilbur, which would be the last thing Mr. Hoover would want...
...Almighty in making the world created cockroaches, erysipelas, blizzards and reformers. Please don't expect a high degree of excellence from us in all things. We will be just as good as the public, to which we look for our support, helps us to be, not a bit better...
...might put personality first. When a lot of men come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...test case the Berlin Labor Court held that any clause or agreement barring servants from Aufzüge or Fahrstüle is void, and branded all such prohibitions as "obsolete and anti-social." This ruling may be an opening wedge to compel landlords and employers to provide better living conditions for domestic servants. Even in modern Berlin apartment buildings, backstairs are unlighted, and despite the long German winter, maids' rooms are nearly always without heat...
Though the grapplers started their season with three defeats, Coach W. E. Lewis declares that they have improved considerably and concedes them better than a fifty-fifty chance to defeat the schoolboys. Andover has lost to the Tufts, Yale, and M. I. T. Freshmen...