Word: easier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...case of the student prepared at the public school, the transition to a college life is much easier academically than it is for the man from the boarding school. The former comes from an atmosphere where only a moderate amount of pressure can possibly be brought to bear upon the amount of studying that he undertakes. The school day lasts from 9 to 3 o'clock and the question of whether he shall study or not during the rest of the day lies entirely in his own hands, or in those of his family...
...live in peace and harmony with your neighbor and to love him as yourself is no easier for nations of men than it is for men. Canada and the U. S. are traditionally amicable neighbors, but this does not spare them from having back-fence arguments. Last week the problems between the two countries had accumulated to an extent that might well have shaken the amity of two less level-minded neighbors...
Meanwhile steel-pipe makers have been whistling through their fingers. Steel is iron mixed with and hardened by carbon. Because it is easier to produce steel than to rid iron of its impurities, steel is cheaper than pure iron. It is also cheaper than-iron or steel alloys, and than copper alloys. But it oxidizes (rusts) many times faster than do those other materials...
...value of the Illinois experiment lies in the fact that therapeutic rat bite fever is easier to cure than malaria, which has a similar good effect on paretics...