Word: moneyless
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...Enemy Aliens Moneyless...
...those who know tell a far different story. As facts begin to make the truth of fanciful pictures of Russia wealth extremely doubtful we after led more and more to ask why we should enter into relations with a moneyless, creditless country, whose government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom...
...foundation of a Bolles Scholarship, however, would seem to anyone who knew the specific nature of Mr. Bolles's interest in moneyless students, emphatically inappropriate. Scholarships (without entering the vexatious question of their use and abuse) undoubtedly stand as prizes, open to a certain class of fellows previously trained to enter a competition as definite in its rules and qualifications as those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest...