Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered a method for making the elective system work better than getting people to vote. Most students will vote for the man upstairs, or the eager characters across the hall. That is fine--at least they know their classmates. Too many do not, and so do not vote at all. They could talk to a few candidates and pick a favorite. It wouldn't hurt...
...week ago today Paul Hoffman, who runs the Economic Cooperation Administration which runs the Marshall Plan, told Europeans that they had better seriously start thinking about getting rid of their trade barriers...
England attempted to get the U.S. to scrap or at least cut down some of these tariffs when she agreed to devalue the pound; the bid was fairly unsuccessful. Considerably similar pressure is coming from other countries. They aren't doing any better...
Because the alumni allotment has not been assigned yet, persons asking for extra tickets were given them in the worst possible position. Lunden advised waiting until the end of the week before purchasing extra tickets, when better locations would be offered...
...result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James] was a completely pitiless killer." His opinion of some of the other Old West badmen who turn up in the files is not much better...