Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game which was not decided until the last few minutes of play. The final score, 13-12 in favor of Long Island was the result of a struggle during which both sides were ahead at various times in the game. Harvard's forward line did well but poor tackling by both backs and forwards often ruined their attack, and the defensive work on the whole was weak...
...best performance is given by Pierre Larquey who impersonates the simpleton, Colleret. Vera Korene has the woodenness of an excellent sleuth, but is a poor vamp when it comes to making good use of sex appeal...
Besides the people and the bands and those poor self-conscious, civic-minded unknowns herded between the organized noises are the officials. The expression on the face of Mayor Mansfield, of Boston, when he raised a flag at 8:45 yesterday morning can only be compared to Al Smith's when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building. And even our zealous officials forget to recall, for Governor Hurley was discovered waiting for a parade on the Cambridge Common, while the affair went on somewhere near Harvard Square...
...raised every time "an American was about to be born." It was not until George and Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life, the poor future in it. After a year, having cleared one acre, they decided to try their luck prospecting in Alaska, sailed in their homemade sloop, enjoyed themselves but found no gold. When the U. S. entered the War, they went home to join...
...poor time to return to the U. S. In Depression times, even lavish Manhattan publishers had no use for a non-commercial author. Alec had to take his family to live with his in-laws, narrow middle-class people in a narrow middle-class New Jersey suburb. He quickly found that the sacrifice of his talent and a willingness to work at anything were not sufficient qualifications. At last he got work as a farmhand. He was not very good at it, worked with a chip on his shoulder that eventually lost him the job. Then he took anything...