Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phoney Ozies think up a better gag. TIME'S correspondent can find no Ozies at No. 4 Brattle St., no Ozies in Cambridge...
...have not violated any treaty or any law and if you will send your lawyer in and talk to our lawyers here, they can settle it much better than some of our cornfield lawyers, like me and you, Mr. Pearson...
...accusations against a radio monopoly until one is proved, there is a likelihood that Mr. McNinch will at any rate oppose the bill's domestic broadcasting provision. Hopefully the industry looks forward to Mr. McNinch's stringing along with Commissioner Case in the belief that "we had better hold on to what we have until we get something better," that U. S. broadcasting in its present state is worth holding on to and that the industry and the Commission had better go ahead together slowly...
...designed and colored to suit the housewife's fancy, was installed last week inside the radio of an average-income family in Chicago. Installer was A. C. Nielsen Co.,'s Executive Vice-President Hugo L. Rusch, who is out to start a new and much better listener survey service for advertisers. Two hundred similar "Audimeters" will soon be placed in private homes and the Nielsen firm, Chicago marketing research organization, expects by the end of the year to have more than 5,000 spotted in radios throughout the country...
...smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate efforts and obscure the good. Better far that the prize money and attendant publicity be withheld on years in which there is nothing outstanding than that they be awarded to shallow and pretentious material. Unless men are selected to serve on the Committee who have the courage, energy, and above all, the awareness to look below...