Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Visalia, Cal., Wayne Switzer, county surveyor, bet $2 on the Leland Stanford football team against Southern California with one Alden Jones. When he lost, Better Switzer paid Better Jones a piece of flypaper with 200 pennies stuck...
...they say, so much worse than they were when we had saloons, why not have the saloons back? The very fact that they are unwilling to say that they want the saloon back, has a meaning. They know perfectly well that present conditions, bad as they are, are vastly better than they wore in the days of the saloon. To that extent at least prohibition is a success...
Sixth, the chief argument of the west is based on the word "can't." "Prohibition can't be enforced" is their chief stock in trade. If, even in its present state of partial enforcement, it is better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next...
Several suggestions have been brought forward. The idea of a university club has been rejected as unfeasible and inadequate to the task of reuniting the two groups. The proposal of building exclusively for student activities met better reception, but there was danger that it might fall in its purpose through lack of patronage, since the powerful Triangle club has removed to quarters of its own. The proposed university center is planned to combine the best features of both, in that, as the seat of activities, it will not tend to be left to the nonclubmen alone...
...center is still in the period of formulation. It is interesting because of its resemblance to the Harvard Union, in which the University once hoped to find a solution to the same problem of reintegration to which the House Plan now seeks the key. Whether Princeton will have better success with a medium which Harvard found, inadequate, or will be forced to take other and further steps, will depend upon her own conditions...