Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Feigenspan (Pride of the Nation) saltwater fish (TIME, Sept. 20) were getting smaller and smaller, Fitger's (He-Man's Nordlager-Naturally Better) fresh-water fish were growing bigger and bigger, as disclosed by 14-weeks' contest conducted throughout States of Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Michigan...
Scales (Toledo, not fish) showed 8,751 pounds of game fish put up for prizes in 770 separate entries, including muskellunge, northern pike, black bass and walleyes, average for all classes of better than 11 pounds...
Under Cinema, TIME, Sept. 13, you state in a footnote that in Russian the adjective meaning "red" also means "pretty," hence the play on words in speaking of a "red girl" in the Communist sense. Whoever wrote that had better have a talk with Mr. Berlitz and brush up his Russian because krasnaya meaning "red" and krasivaya meaning "pretty" are similar in appearance but entirely different in meaning. I quote the feminine form of the adjective and the transliteration...
...anyone," he predicted after he had sent his charges in, following a hard scrimmage. "Their spirit has greatly improved lately, and the squad is shaping up much better than was at first expected...
...Stayed in bed until almost eight o'clock, when I decided that if I were to have breakfast and get to class, I had better rise. They say Professor Merriman gets awful mad if you come in even one minute late. His nickname, so one boy said--an upperclassman, I gathered, from his green bag,--is "Friskie." I wonder...