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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Driver: "Thank you. I'm quite satisfied. I like it better here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elixir of Rearmament | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less a parody than an amateur-hour attempt at something Ethel Merman can do much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Chief U. S. authority on electric eels is Christopher W. Coates, head curator of Manhattan's Aquarium. Curator Coates last week told scientists in Washington that the eels may furnish a clue for electric anesthesia that might be better than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 500-Volt Eel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...still feels that "after consulting with college chaplains in charge of such churches elsewhere, and after reviewing our own situation here, I am persuaded we shall be better advised to remain a congregation rather than to attempt to become formally a church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deen Sperry Proposes Church Grouping Into "Congregation" | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...mural which it describes, the last two lines will be on the left and read first, and the first two on the right and read last, and the total effect will be senseless. If it is felt that the couplets are needed to explain the murals, it might be better to wipe the slate clean and remove the murals also. At best they are glorified Liberty Bond posters. The great artist who painted them can no more have considered them representative of his best work than President Emeritus Lowell can be believed to have any special attachment for these verses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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