Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile 40,000 Chicago employes missed another pay day. Their plight spoiled an otherwise comic-opera effect. A troop of landlords marched into the courts, demanded eviction orders against city jobholders who had defaulted their rent. Orders were issued against four women with dependent children. A janitor was ordered into the streets; he owed $20; the school board owed him $127. Law made these and six other evictions mandatory, but the court in each case granted an extension. United Charities was swamped with calls for help...
...Plight of Department...
Moreover, the plight of the Department was in glaring contrast with the condition of those departments concerned with the natural and physical sciences, in which it had long been a matter of course that money for research was a plain necessity. Yet economic research, properly conducted, is as expensive as research in any other field, and probably more expensive than in most others. The collection of the primary materials is often wholly beyond the ability of the individual investigator, and the subsequent analysis and study of data, always becoming more minute and laborious and involving much work of a purely...
...does seem a shame doesn't it? With a well-bred indifference for such mundane affairs. Harvard's intellectuals including those many students who come of working class families and find it necessary to work their way through Harvard go their way serenely indifferent to the plight of Harvard's large staff of underpaid workers, whose condition is a disgrace to the University...