Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agencies estimate the num-ber of open tuberculosis patients in New Orleans alone as at 2,500. The Charity Hospital now houses 314. There are at least 2,000 chronic and incurable cases of cancer and heart disease who require proper hospitalization. No facilities are now available to these poor, unfortunate sufferers...
When Charles Knox started his gelatine works, he was too poor to hire a sales staff, did his own gelatine selling on the road as a sideline to selling gloves. But when he died in 1908 the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co, was in anything but prosperous state, for Charles Knox's idea of good gelatine promotion had been race horses wearing the Knox colors and primitive airships bearing the Knox name...
...alarm clock! The Vagabond, lying in bed in a somewhat comatose state of vacuity, vaguely wondered where his left arm might be. He wanted to use that arm, too, as the alarm clock bothered him, and he felt that for humane reasons he ought to be kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi?--well anyhow...
...keep grades as high as students with no activities of any kind; indeed by some, the football players are even watched more suspiciously than scholarship men. Most forms of social life and diversion are automatically given up, and for all this very little praise is meted out during a poor season or even a moderately successful one. It is easy to see why players take their football seriously; if there is to be a winning team, it is the only...
...picture is Hollywood's idea of a painless way to present good music to the great American public, but it just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...