Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small edition of proofs, and Pierre Matisse was glad to give them a Manhattan showing. John Dos Passos wrote a short, able introduction to the catalog. Ernest Hemingway, still hot under his size 16 collar, pounded out a 1,500-word essay that described his friend's plight, his art, and formed a collector's item. Excerpt...
Focussing attention on the sorry plight of the men who are forced to work part-time during their Freshman year, the current student waiter petition deserves serious consideration by the University. The plan justly urges that the man who attempts to combine outside work with compulsory exercise is unable to spend the requisite time in pursuing his regular studies and suffers from physical exhaustion...
Sorry though their plight may be, the brokers can point with pride to one notable fact: They came under Federal regulation and lived to tell the tale. There are today 616 Stock Exchange firms, only five less than on Jan. 1, only 49 less than at the 1930 peak. There are still 1,375 members of the Exchange, and they still like to bet on football games...
Apparently the only new item, on which the Forum wishes to improve the plight of the poor, under-expressed, censored Harvard undergraduate, is in the matter of Parliamentary procedure and if one is to judge from the conduct of the other clubs, such an ambition is not to be ridiculed...
...changes in policy, this outright statement of twelve thousand editors assumes major significance. Taxpayers look to the Capitol uncertainly and with a growing feeling of indignation. Burdened now with heavy taxes a greater increase might break their weary backs and a policy of inflation would only aggravate their financial plight. Fearfully they justly ask where is the money coming from to support such expensive administrative policies and they know that sooner or later they must...