Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whitney. Poor lecturer, but a brilliant scholar. Helpful to advanced...
...aged 67, he killed himself. The suicide, with a pistol at his hunting lodge after a morning's target practice, was an act of strong will and not neurosis, and behind it lay a year's sickness (a streptococcus infection). Behind that was the story of a poor country boy who became a public utilities tycoon worth some $10,000,000. Behind that was the story of the electrification of Connecticut, a politico-financial chapter of U. S. history without peer as an illustration of what current historians call the Old Deal...
...line, saluting like an automaton for two full hours. Near Princess Elizabeth, doing his best to answer her questions, was King George's cousin and personal naval A.D.C., Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The Queen's dark glasses were unnecessary. It was not raining but visibility was so poor that only two or three ships of the line could be seen at one time...
...into the Nazi Government: "The fight is to take the [2,000,000 German] children away from us. ... Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of 60,000,000 people, intelligent people, will submit in fear and servitude to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that, I am told. . . . During and after the World War the German Government complained bitterly of the propaganda aimed at it by the Allies concerning atrocities perpetrated by German troops. Now the present German Government is making use of this same kind of propaganda against the Catholic Church...
Yesterday's editorial on Education at Harvard pointed out that the calibre of instruction offered to Freshmen and others who enroll in the large elementary courses, that are taught by young section-men, is exceedingly poor. The fact that fifty per cent of these men have had less than three years of teaching experience, and over thirty percent are enrolled in graduate school study, seems to be one of the principal reasons for this unfortunate situation. Thus the University seems to be bent on crucifying the Freshman Class on the standards of Graduate School students, who need employment to tide...