Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...Coast League. Says Bucky: "San Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...
...countless other citizens who feel as we do, guilty before God simply because we have been citizens of a city where a boy could be stabbed to death because of the color of his skin. May God forgive us all and give us courage to find and follow a better...
...British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...
With the return of the buyer's market, every U.S. manufacturer is cudgeling his brain−and the brains of designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...