Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boom de-ay"--"The Bowery"--"The Sidewalks of new York" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"--Daisy bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")--"Comrades"--"Little Annie Rooney"--"She May Have Seen Better Days"--"The Band Played On"--"After the Ball"--"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...
...Goodrich, Tew & Co. His first job was to clean and roll liners at 15? an hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond as a result of a study Tew made in England of the Palmer cord tire process. In 1912 Goodrich and Diamond merged and Jim Tew began the climb that landed him in the presidency...
Crane's dilemma was to earn enough money to live on and write poetry at the same time. For a while he thought he had solved it, when he made a success as an advertising copy writer. But the better he became as copy writer the less time he had for poetry. Finally he chucked his job, depended thereafter on friends and windfalls. Banker Otto Kahn, when Crane appealed to him, gave him $1,000; later another $1,500. Crane's family and friends. and very rarely a check from an editor, supplied the rest of his income...
...paternalism of prescribing within narrow limits what a man is to do in college has gone out unlamented. If the incumbent of the new post lives up to the hopes placed in him, he will mark the advent of a new and better paternalism: the readiness and ability to give friendly advice on distressing matters when it is asked...