Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University hockey sound was yesterday given an enforced rest because of the poor condition of the rinks...
Many of us are inclined to forget our social responsibility. There was a convention in the Middle Ages that the privileged class--the nobility--owed a certain debt to the poor. The titled nobility, we hope, has dropped out of our civilization; but there is still a privileged class; and while all men and women have a duty to the community, those who receive the most from the community have in return the greatest obligation. The danger is lest college men forget this obligation and regard college only as a help to personal advancement. Dr. Daniel Hunt Clare, speaking...
...said to have won 150 out of 508 seats in the recent elections. But in spite of this, Gabriele d'Annunzio seems to be able to do what he likes with the army, whether the government likes it or not. To a more outsider it would seem a poor time for an Italian Premier to rail at Italy's allies for falling to support Italy's annexationist claims, and at the same time to ask for raw materials from America...
Much criticism has been directed at the present management for having offered so poor a list of games. But we wish to call the attention of those who are ignorant of the facts that the schedule was unintentionally weak. A game had been arranged with the Army at Cambridge; and it was only after all the other larger teams had arranged their schedules that the War Department refused to allow the West Pointers to play in the Stadium. An Army game in the early season would have bolstered one weak spot immensely...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...