Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent upsurge of anti-union legislation in California, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan taught John Lewis anything, it was that Labor was not uniformly popular in all sections of the country even with vote-hungry politicians, and that Labor had better bestir itself politically. Leader Lewis now talked of forming "articulate groups of workers to declare themselves on social, political and economic affairs," and belligerently proclaimed: "Progressive Labor is not retreating." On his recommendation, his board proceeded to woo Youth and Farmers, tease the Aged by recommending $60-a-month Federal pensions for single oldsters over 60, $90 a month...
Yale has done well against its opponents this spring, but the times of the Harvard crew have been consistently as good or better. The fact that Charley Ruprecht, regular number six man in the Blue boat and only other oarsman with varsity four-mile experience, will be unable to row, is going to make Yale even more of a question mark than ever. His place has been taken by George Vietor...
...little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was to prime Government examiners to use "good" words, avoid "bad" ones-the better to propagandize the New Deal. Excerpts...
...Book of Miracles, a collection of lively present-day fairy tales, is the best of the bunch. The satire is sharper, better aimed; Hecht's imagination makes fewer mystic misfires, sparkles more inventively, humorously, humanely...
...have men of distinction within your ranks, ten or fifteen who have risen high. You have a right to be proud of them. But you have a better right to be proud of the larger body of your class who, without any claim to fame or fortune, have faced and fought through two of the greatest national crises in America's history. Those men, dragged from their first jobs into a mass murder three thousand miles away, brought back to meet a hysterical nation who thought its future was its bankroll, forced to sit helplessly by and watch their financial...