Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made out new dialing charts as a result of the Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas. In the Hoover view, radio's difficulties would be better handled in the Department of Commerce, where radio regulation rested before Congress declined Mr. Hoover's advice. It would not be surprising to hear him as President recommend to Congress what it refused him as Secretary. If Congress complied, radio might then be put under some oldtime Hoover...
...Governor Moody, himself just re-elected by a whacking majority in the South, had said to Governor-elect Roosevelt in the North: "It's going to be either you or me in 1932, old boy, and I'm a good enough politician to see that it had better be you and me. We'll decide later which of us gets first place on the ticket...
...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...
...Singer. Poor girls who work hard, live right, do not always develop into great singers. Marion Talley disappointed. So did Mary Lewis, Grace Moore. But Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...
Yours for more and better ways by which to bewilder the Freshman Class. Percy, Yale News...