Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Scout law of Lord Baden-Powell is long and rambling, the U. S. Scout law brief, better written. British Law No. 2 says: "A Scout is loyal to the King and to his officers and to his parents, his country and his employers. He must stick to them through thick and thin against anyone who is their enemy or who even talks badly of them." The U. S. Law No. 2 says simply: "A Scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due: his Scout Leader, his home and parents and country." Aside from...
...dictatorships are better to prepare for war, democracies are better to finish wars. Despots have forced America and Britain to undertake rearmament and, having undertaken it, we must necessarily win the rearmament race...
...Germany will find she has no sincerer and no more useful friend in the world than Britain! . . . I have noticed that Dr. Schacht is building a fine new structure for the Reichsbank which has plenty of room for a substantial quantity of gold. Subject to political adjustments, no better investment could be made of some of the gold now hoarded in Threadneedle Street and Kentucky than a loan to Germany...
...hole golf match, a good player rarely makes more than 75 shots. In a three-out-of-five-set tennis match, a player may make as many as 5,000 shots. Consequently, in tennis, luck counts for comparatively little and the better player almost always wins. Before the All-England tennis championships started at Wimbledon last fortnight, experts knew who the best players were: redhaired, lanky Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. and Germany's handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm...
...setting 16 years as the minimum age for brides brought 12-year-old Geneva Hamby Peel and gangling, 32-year-old Homer Peel into court at Madisonville. But Judge A. T. Stewart sent the child back to the hills with her husband in the belief that she would be better off there than with her ne'er-do-well mother or in a State institution...