Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate...
Without exception every Tokyo paper reported that the Japanese Government would reject the Brussels Conference's proposals, Nichi Nichi adding that the Conference had better advise China to approach Japan directly and sue for peace. Adolf Hitler, having kept completely mum and kept Germany out of the Conference, was conceded by European observers to be building up a position of technical aloofness to which Japanese and Chinese might ultimately turn, should they decide that One Man can mediate better than a Conference...
...women out of a 100 have, or think they have, a bosom problem. . . . Stop thinking of your bosom as an isolated problem. Instead think of it in relation to your general health and well being. . . . An adept masseuse may treat your bosom without causing injury but you might better have spent your time and money on a merry-go-round. . . . Freak diets which cause rapid reduction ravage the bosom. . . . If your breasts are out of fashion today, they may be in fashion tomorrow...
...schools from the four sections of the country were lined up, the East and the Middle West are tied for first place with three positions apiece, but the quality of the East is better, having places four, five, and six against three, nine, and ten for the Middle West...
Usher is somewhat more kindly, but he feels that the elaborate statistics adduced by Sorokin do not, on the whole, support his argument. As a historian, Usher has little sympathy with Sorokin's method of ideal types which he believes better adapted to short essays than to extended treatises...