Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold, silver and copper. Its salmon shipments have been worth as much as $42,000,000 in a single year. . Alaska cost precisely $7,200,000* ($12 per sq. mi.) when the U. S. Government bought it from Russia, since the Muscovites considered it not much better than a huge, bear-infested snowdrift. Last week, this colossal real-estate coup-engineered by Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State William Henry Seward-was somewhat inappropriately commemorated in Washington, D. C. Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer...
...reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy to Juneau and dispatch the draft itself, for safekeeping, to the brand-new National Archives Building...
Despite the insistence of El Salvador that she was quitting the League for financial reasons, a better reason was probably to be found in the friendships she has lately made with Germany, who is no longer in the League, with Italy who, though a member, scorns...
...those who believed that any scheme to divide the Holy Land was morally wrong, and those led by the world's best-known Zionist, chin-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who were willing to accept the British scheme as a basis for bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph" ("A") for the first resolution, 'Beth...
...retirement at his career's crest is not taken seriously at movie colony dinner tables. Last week Muni seemed to be of two minds. "I am going away for a while," he said, "and stay until I'm sick of it. If I like it better I may stay permanently...