Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of years there was a Dr. Levingston in Freeport who was a doctor of sorts. He was probably better-known as a hunter and fisher. He was well-known in Freeport; his clothes were of the best, money seemed to be plentiful, his diamonds were famous, notably the one he wore on his collarless shirt. His wife was a charming woman, cultured and much younger than the "Doctor...
Culminating a long demand for better undergraduate representation in athletic control boards, the H.A.A, today announced formation of an Undergraduate Athletic Council and an Inter House Athletic Council, to take effect next year...
William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...
After these miner lapses, however, there is a rush toward better things. "The Criminal Record" guides the reader expertly through five masterpieces of 'tee' literature, and serves as a fitting prelude to the agony columns that have made the "Saturday Review" famous and may do the same for the "Advocate". The Personals and the Classified ads alone make this issue worth any man's, or, better still, any maid's, quarter. There is also a double-crostic, no harder to work than those Mrs. Kingsley usually presents. The faint Limerick tinge to this one merely shows we are in Boston...
...Germany is to be believed, which is doubtful, that the bombing of Almeria "closes the incident," then it is just as well that the President has not ventured into deep waters by declaring her a belligerent. Too much caution is better than too little in international affairs. Another such incident will make the situation clearer, and then will be the time to reverse Mr. Hull's present decision...