Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singers: famed Negro Blues Composer William Christopher Handy, Composer J. Rosamond (brother of James Weldon) Johnson. Meanwhile spontaneous contributions for a James Bland Memorial began to pile up in Publisher Cooke's Philadelphia office. It looked as if James Bland's grave might soon have something better on it than poison...
...expanding economy, the public is now buying at the rate of about 50,000,000 tires a year. In the first half of 1939, the industry sold 9,217,000 tires at little enough profit to the hard-bargaining auto companies, and 17,188,000 tires at a better markup to the public. Last week its big producers were able to report quite satisfactory profits...
...miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...
...significance to otherwise unwieldy subjects." She suggests that parents and teachers recognize the educational value of children's folk literature, that writers for children use it as a model. Says she, sagely: "[Children's] humor involves a laugh at the simpleton. But perhaps children love the simpleton better than the wise...
...Wodehousebroken readers, each of their master's novels is as good as the last, perhaps even a little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same jolly old set of characters, the same intricately improbable plot clicking along with the dizzy precision of a circus...