Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another notion of Mark Twain's was that monarchies would do better if kings saw how their subjects lived. In medieval London's alleys, Edward fares not much better than his counterpart in the palace until he encounters a young soldier of fortune named Miles Hendon (Errol Flynn). Hendon feeds him, humors his apparently preposterous notion that he is the King of England, sets out, when the boy is kidnapped, to rescue him from John Canty's gang of thieves. When the rescue entails fighting off the palace guards, sent to kill the young King before...
...support which financial interests can give." As to Commissioner Douglas' proposal for more competitive bidding for certain new issues, Banker Hall cited the Interstate Commerce Commission, which after long study concluded that except on equipment bonds-a highly-standardized type of security-the railroads could do better playing along with their own bankers...
...these really the people who made the revolution? No; they are the people who profit by it. ... Remember that this moulding of the spirit begins in earliest infancy. . . . What is important here is to persuade people that they are as well off as they can be until a better time comes; to persuade them that elsewhere people are worse off. The only way of achieving this is carefully to prevent any communication with the outside world...
...than this, so much more complex that we have not yet caught a glimpse of its entire plan." What the outline of that plan might be Ortega does not say, but he tries to show that, in Spain's case, a military reading of history answers more questions better...
Elizabeth was going to have another baby. Robert knew enough about it to be embarrassed; when the news was broken to Bunny, he was simply hostile to the idea, wanted his mother to think better of it. Because Elizabeth had had a hard time when the other children were born, she was to go away to a hospital in a neighboring city. It was the winter of 1918, when the flu epidemic was ravaging the country. Bunny was the first to come down with it. After his recovery, he and Robert were packed off to an aunt's while...