Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation that has graduated and grown old has tinged this period with roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle of names and anecdotes neatly tied with a red diploma ribbon...
Whatever may be the value of this conception of college as the pleasant interlude before life "in the great world" begins, it is obvious that from a practical point of view college training is often viewed as a doubtful advantage by the great world itself. According to a press appearing in the adjoining column, "perhaps it is less that college training really equips men for important roles in life as it is that the college offers at least a recognized system of some sort of training, is convenient and conventionally accepted, and works better than no system...
...still remains in Cambridge. In order to facilitate the joining of Harvard clubs by this year's graduating class the CRIMSON is this year to publish a list of Harvard clubs and the officials in charge of them. Early application to these functionaries will not only ensure a pleasant early week in June next year but in addition will greatly facilitate the annual contribution of large sums to the further support of Harvard, Cambridge branch...
...rubber growers of the Far East, May was to have been a pleasant month. After long negotiations, British and Dutch planters had agreed to tap no trees during the entire month (TIME, April 14). So well did they argue the thesis that this simple expedient would bolster the price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish...
Last week 1,000 advertising men and women carried away from Washington. D. C. the pleasant feeling that their 26th annual convention of the Advertising Federation of America had jolted the nation's capital into consciousness of the scope of U. S. advertising. During their five-day visit they had been welcomed by the President of the U. S., addressed by cabinet officers, foreign diplomats, Senators, had attended 38 separate meetings, listened to 176 speakers, elected new officers...