Word: better
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dresses, and a party of three ladies entered. One was bewitchingly pretty, petite, fascinating, - Cambridge was no longer dull. She seemed to come in among the musty old volumes like a breeze laden with sweet-scented hay. The ladies who accompanied her, - well, perhaps the less said, the better; suffice it to say they were not very fair, nor very fat, but very forty. The taller one carried an umbrella that might have belonged to Sairey Gamp...
Jarvis, to be sure, seems as fur from being ready for use as ever. Such a piece of botch-work as all the so-called repairs on this field have been is not often seen. A meeting at Beacon Park, however, would be much better than no meeting at all, and would serve to keep alive the interest in athletics. Will not the officers of the H. A. A. consider this matter...
...over a year, until his term was out. During this time it was notorious what sort of a man he was, and he was not allowed by the Faculty to make out his own examination papers. Now, it is our humble but firm opinion that it would have been better for the college if he had been dismissed, when he refused to resign, at whatever cost. When a man is asked to resign, it ought to mean that he will be put out if he does not. We would respectfully submit that this would have been better than to have...
Little the better for their short-lived glory...
Harvard's time in the New London race (20 min. 44 8/5 sec.) is the best time made in the four University regattas with eight-oared shells. It would probably have been several seconds better if our crew had not caught their oars in the eelgrass near the start...