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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the School of Architecture since 1908, Charles W. Killam wil retire from active teaching next September 1. Poor health causes him to give up the professorship that he has held since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KILLAM ENDS WORK IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

Harassed History students have long gnashed their teeth at the utter impossibility of correlating material for their general and special examinations. Professors have clucked their tongues sympathetically and suggested more intensive tutorial work. But tinkering with the tutorial system is a poor palliative for the hardship worked by the present system. The cure is course revision. The tutorial system is now lugging the heavyload placed in its lap by poorly organized courses. Instead of taking up problems arising from course lectures and readings, the tutorial system is trying to plug the gap between courses. This is an inefficient and half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURSE CATASTROPHIES | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

Snowing, five inch base, poor skiing on open slopes, none on trails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI CONDITIONS | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

...Boston and Maine Railroad announced tonight that a weekend snow train would be run to Franconia Notch if conditions are satisfactory. The first snow train of the year, scheduled for last weekend was postponed owing to poor snow conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI TRAIN | 1/8/1937 | See Source »

...York Sun, was spread by its routemen throughout the city. The game rooted fastest in the Spanish section of Harlem, where the residents were steeped in the lore of lotteries. From there it spread into the adjacent colored quarter, where it has kept a large part of the population poor ever since. Metropolitan Life has had trouble with wholesale lapsing of insurance policies throughout Harlem from the beginning of the numbers mania. The game has spread far beyond the borders of Harlem under the high-pressure promotion of the numbers hawkers, who have enlisted a salesman in nearly every second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Numbers | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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