Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York World-Telegram offered a suggestion: "A new party chief on a contingency fee and percentage basis. Settle with him after the ballots are counted. Pay him nothing if the party doesn't do better than it has in the last 18 years. Pay him a graduated bonus if he increases the Republican vote. Ought to try something to put some incentive into the G.O.P...
Some parents protested. How would they know what grade their children were in? Schwertz replied that they wouldn't, but that was better than promoting kids whether they could handle the work or not. After a year's trial of the plan, the mothers voted unanimously to let Principal Schwertz carry...
...Button, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices and far better organization among their human enemies...
...Kentucky-fashion, in new charred white oak casks? Up rose Guy C. Shearer, administrator of Kentucky's liquor board. "Kentucky," cried he, "is a bourbon state . . . steeped in the knowledge and in the tradition of the production of whisky, both legal . . . and illegal." The Treasury, hinted Shearer, had better not tell Kentucky how whisky should be made...
...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...