Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directors of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, in attempting to popularize fine arts, have recently adopted a highly commendable experiment to loan paintings to students to decorate their rooms. It is their contention that real beauty of a painting can better be found while observing it in one's own rooms in surroundings of comparative comfort, rather than in the severe background of a museum...
...League, which under the treaties, is to safeguard their interests. Off-hand this would appear to be a good arrangement and to provide sufficient protection. The League Council has, in fact, done good work in smoothing over difficulties of a minor nature and in paving the way to better relationship through gentle pressure upon various governments. But it has been, to date, unable to handle the larger issues satisfactorily. After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests of these powers are bound to make themselves felt. The minorities...
That squash pie? They make it lousy here. Fifteen cents? Why you can get a bigger piece at the Georgian for a dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
...form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...