Word: neediest
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...anyone has been brought up so wrapped in cotton that he, like the famous dauphin, cannot see why the poor do not eat cake when they cannot get bread, he should read the stories now published daily in the New York Times about the Hundred Neediest Cases in that great city. If after reading a few of these tragedies his spirit is not humbled, then his case is hopeless...
...financed the work of looking up many of the cases, of keeping the books, of distributing the benefits, while in material returns it gains nothing. It has so increased subscriptions that since 1916 it has been able to give benefits to two hundred instead of one hundred neediest cases...