Word: betters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mexico has apparently come to the conclusion that is is the better part of valor to suppress the kidnappers who have been operating along our border for the past two or three years. Our neighbor to the south burned his fingers in the Jenkins case, and evidently decided to take no chances on further complications arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard...
Having passed through the terrors of war, we hopefully face the even more perilous times of reconstruction ahead. Reconstruction as well as charity begins at home. And where can we be better "reconstructed" in our ideas of the possibilities of the English language than by listening to Professor Copeland? May his readings continue until the "Letters from France" and the "Hero's Couch" are but memories of the distant past...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...
Then it turns its attentions to murders, divorces, and Mr. Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...
...generally recognized that no winter sport affords a better opportunity for exercise with the additional features of organized play. Class basketball teams will go a long way to meet the ever-increasing demands for winter exercise...