Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completed the most ambitious inquiry into this question ever made in the U. S., told New York, which spends more than any other State ($277,900,000), that it does not get its money's worth. Their proposals for making New York's school dollars do a better job were broad enough to fit most of the other 47 States...
Gulick and Mr. Young plead for a better deal for New York's pupils and taxpayers...
...year-old poet, scholar, teacher and soldier, who gained U. S. fame with his account of his War years, Goodbye to All That, wrote his first Roman novel as a scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...
Several Eastern Clubs Better...
More unadulterated piffle is expended upon this subject by students who should know better than upon any other campus topic, including pacifism. --The McGill Daily