Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said a friend who found Alf Landon in his barn currying a horse: "Guess you're having a better time than if you had got the big job." Said Alf Landon: '"Yes, if I had won I wouldn't have had a chance to curry my horse...
Informally an official of the College of Arms added: "The less said about this the better...
Britons on the North Sea coast remember that only 20 years ago they were tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
Princeton last week-did nothing to tarnish. There are many elements to a musical show-music, lyrics, libretto, costumes, sets, dancers, singers, comics. It is not algebraically likely that any college production would excel in each department each year. But Fol-De-Rol bats a very satisfactory .500 or better...
...poets make fewer excuses for themselves, and with good reason. Of course the better sort of poetry has a timeless quality, and the passing of years does not invariably make a better poet of a promising beginner. What lyric of Moody's, for example, is better than the song...