Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation applies also to the individual. . . . You cannot go on the assumption that you are as good as the rest of folks. You should take the attitude that you are a damned sight better...
...That beat Stroud, and she added injury to her revenge by giving him good cause to think her unfaithful. That drove him to throttle her, and to drop himself out of the window, thus ending a book which, considering that the author has published five others and should know better by now is not a very good book...
...think you could do a lot more for girls and women by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they have gotten into trouble." So, in 1926, wrote Senator James Couzens of Michigan when asked (by Mr. Kresge) to contribute $1,000 to a home for girls.* Accustomed, however, is Mr. Kresge to reflections upon his philanthropy. His gift of $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League in 1927 was followed by a statement from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment that Kresge stores were selling homebrew outfits, cocktail shakers and other accessories...
...wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder, ran two miles...
...discard of outworn Yale traditions. This intrinsically barbarous practice belonged to the older and more primitive Yale College. Now that the modern Senior Societies have frankly become social clubs, with their members chosen on that basis (and no one can object if that is their openly avowed policy), some better system of giving out elections should be found. Yale Alumni Weekly...