Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomb-racks and blew in the fronts of both the Cathay and Palace Hotels, which face each other across teeming Nanking Road. Two hundred and twenty people were killed and mangled. And had the ghastly scene been directed in a Hollywood studio, the cinematography could scarcely have been handled better. The MARCH OF TIME'S Cameraman Harrison Forman, an aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter...
...with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast furnace used by the steel industry, spent $500,000 in experimentation before Victor finally...
...druggist named Franklin V. Canning, who agreed to sell the material to Gum, Inc. at no higher price than it could be got for elsewhere, and who supplied working capital in return for 50% (250 shares) of the stock. In 1932 trouble arose because a Wrigley subsidiary developed a better base which undersold Canning's. Consequently altercations between Canning and President Bowman resulted in the latter's ouster from the company last year...
...colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners won him a government appointment. He was again disillusioned. Instead of finding himself with opportunities to pursue his research, he was given six months in which to decide whether a two-and-a-half inch bandage is better than a three-inch. With his last ?600 he bought a down-&-out practice in London, found after months of struggle that he had a charming bedside manner, settled down to make a fat living in the swank West End by flattery, worthless capsules, clothes made in Conduit Street...
...Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication in Britain, he thundered: "I say to you, in all seriousness, that if half of this famous thoroughfare were bombed out of existence tomorrow, medicine, indeed all of us . . would be better...