Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Clara B. Spence, the principal of the Spence School, where the frightened girls were boarders. There was a reason for her mad, midnight revelling. She had caught her pupils having surreptitious feasts in their cubicles. She wished to show them that she, their principal, could give much better feasts than they could. Then, Miss Spence was certain, they would break her rules no more. That wise, surprising and effective banquet occurred many years ago, in the winter...
...most observers probable that Mme. Reggio had made her climb more for purposes of publicity than to "impress the health value," of her profession. Yet it was pleasant to reflect that Mme. Reggio had spent effort and years in developing her lungs so that she might sing the better; and that she had now achieved congratulations for singing so long and hard that her lungs were phenomenally good. Also, it seemed sad that having strengthened her lungs, Mme. Reggio was able to commercialize her equipment more effectively in athletic than in artistic endeavors...
...wrong but her dead bones are still luminous with the radium she swallowed. Quinta and Albina left their jobs after two years for the romance of marriage, romance that has become tragedy. Mrs. Edna Hussman also left the company for marriage in 1922. Katherine Schaub and Grace Fryer found better positions in 1920. More than six years have passed since the young women pointed the paintbrushes between pursed lips. A New Jersey statute of limitations says suit for damages must be brought within two years after the inception of disease. But, for four years, these girls were unaware...
...Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
...Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards: fighting the "diploma mills." working for better education of physicians, bewailing the money spent on armament while universities were in need...