Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after dinner. Nurse Toppan accompanied the body to the Davis home at Cataumet. When people came with flowers (Nurse Toppan later said), "I wanted to say to them: 'You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you.'" Sure enough, within 40 days she had done away with Mr. Davis and two Davis daughters...
...simple lottery a player can pick any number from 000 to 999 and place a bet from 1? to $5 or more (most bets are only a few cents) that the same figures will appear in some daily public statistic (e.g., daily bank clearances). Because the odds against the better are 1,000-to-1 and the payoff, minus commissions, is only 540-to-1, numbers is highly profitable to its bankers and collectors. When Dutch Schultz turned his energies from beer-running to numbers, he organized it along military lines with bet collectors at the bottom, controllers who tabulated...
...water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...That a "high grade moron" makes a better driver than an intelligent man, because intelligent people are apt to think of other things while driving...
...That people with bad eyes and slightly deaf ears drive better than people who can hear (and worry about) every body squeak and can see a pretty girl two blocks...