Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welfare state by four billion dollars annually. Fulfilling a promise which the Labourites declared visionary in the 1955 election, over two million houses have gone up under the housing program. And finally, the Tories are ending the draft this year. Not surprisingly, the Conservative theme has been "Life Is Better with the Conservatives. Don't Let Labour Ruin...
...dropping its old requirement for both Latin and Greek, the Department hopes to introduce greater flexibility, Cross said, and to "tailor the requirements better to fit available source material...
These discoveries disproved several popular fallacies about the causes of juvenile delinquency; for example, the idea that delinquents are physically unhealthy children. The Glueck's findings show that, if anything, the delinquents were in better health than the non-delinquents: 91 per cent were rated in good health as compared with 88 per cent of the non-delinquents, according to a standard medical examination...
...they can be steered away from a life of crime. Of the three devices, only one, the Social Prediction Table, has been validated since its inception in 1950. The other two, which are constructed from Rorschach and psychiatric data, are not easily applied, and together do not do a better job of selecting potential delinquents than the SPT does alone...
...this inquiry, again the table revealed its value for boys of status and background different from that of the original test group. The Cambridge-Somerville Study included boys of higher intelligence, of better economic status, and of better home neighborhoods than those in the Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency study...