Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very nearly the case as regards the investment banking field as I doubt if there is a man who goes through Harvard College who at one time or another does not have it suggested to him that he enter the field of investment banking, or as it is perhaps better known--selling bonds. At a reunion, one Class advertised the fact that out of some five hundred members, four hundred and ninety-nine of them were bond salesmen...
From where he sat at the inaugural TIME'S correspondent would have taken oath that Mr. Coolidge shook without rising. The photographic record proves otherwise. To TIME'S correspondent a reprimand for not posting himself better and to Mr. Coolidge a full sincere apology...
...Grundy's lips were sealed as if to part them would loose only sobs of heartbreak, but Mr. Grundy's friends predicted that he would "go along" with the Hoover Administration on limited tariff revision. For after all, some tariff boosting is better than none...
What Conductor Williamson wanted was better church music. He wanted to recreate an interest in the art of hymnology. Music, he said, was once the child of the church, where Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and the rest had their training. It should be brought back and made worshipful, the professional tang taken out. It should be devotion itself and delivered always with the greatest artistry...
Behind the bars of Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...