Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escaped dengue fever, he said, and superstitiously rapped the wooden handle of his umbrella. Yes, his rheumatism was better, thanks to the tropic heat and tennis. Did he have apprehensions or misgivings about his high post? Statesman Stimson drew in his chin and replied...
...prime joke this would have been, had not other students of Prohibition, perhaps less profound than Senator Borah but with better memories, recalled that on May 16, 1921, the Supreme Court had decided this exact point−and decided it solidly against Senator Borah's present interpretation. In the case of Dillon v. Gloss, Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the unanimous opinion of the court...
...Stanley Baldwin, imperturbable leader of the Conservatives. He has spent all his life "muddling through" and has got on well enough. Just now he seems to have no very definite program; but, unlike many of his Conservative followers, he is not worried about that. Last week he produced nothing better than a few slings and arrows hurled higgledy-piggledy at Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Lloyd George...
...Harvard undergraduate desires to be harnessed with silken leading strings or allowed the free reins of natural social intercourse, it is evident that the older generation of graduates sentimentally think of him in terms of the pre-war Harvard of their youth. The younger graduate would be the better authority on the problem of how sadly the modern Harvard man needs the House Plan...
...meeting, which was proposed by H. W. Clark '23, arrangements will be made whereby certain referees will officiate only at university games. Clark pointed out there is a great difference between refereeing a college game and refereeing a schoolboy game and that the best solution to the problem of better officiating and subsequent speeding up of the game is to have certain men referee only college games...