Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their rights. As a compromise, two lines of mourners followed the hearse, one carrying red flags, the other with religious banners. Said a spectator: "I don't know what our neighbor Angelo would think if he were alive. But never have I seen a funeral with better color...
Franco was still beaming next day as he gave Abdullah a spectacular public embrace. Madrid declared a national holiday the better to welcome the royal guest. One peevish cobbler grumbled: "Haven't we enough saints' days which keep us from working without a Moorish king thrown in as well...
...some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh to hear it." In short, wrote he, "the only justification possible for the rather too marked lowering of the festival standard . . . this year is that some of the performances have been far better than the music...
...researchers noted that certain infections (e.g., the minute protozoa which cause sleeping sickness) thrive in a well-fed patient, but languish where some supposedly vital food factor is missing. Rats whose diet was lacking in the vitamin B complex survived sleeping sickness better than better-fed rodents. Ill-fed rats infested with an intestinal parasite were not helped by a pantothenic acid (vitamin) preparation in their diet; instead, the parasites flourished on it. So did the parasites in chickens infected with bird malaria...
Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...