Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicaraguans enjoyed more another act by President Brenes Jarquin last week. He broadcasted the first Presidential radioration in Nicaragua's history. Because most of the natives are so poor they cannot afford radio sets, broadcasting has never been a Nicaraguan feature. Enthusiasm greeted the President's promise "to reduce the cost of radios to a minimum that all might enjoy their benefits...
...solicited business from Philadelphia merchants. The father had agreed to join the firm as soon as his duties as teacher in a "female seminary" terminated in the following June. From June 1869 until his death in 1873, N. W. Ayers gave as much time to the business as his poor health permitted. That his contribution was more than nominal is proved by a letterbook of F. W. Ayer's for the period and by the fact that he recieved half the profits, as shown by the firm ledgers...
...election is safe, but the basis on which this is accomplished may not last forever. The House of Assembly of Bermuda last week put through a budget providing ample funds for the Government to propagandize Bermuda in favor of birth control, supply the necessary apparatus cheap to poor Negroes; further, to launch a determined fight on venereal disease by setting up free clinics. Only 20 of the 360 Bermuda Islands are inhabited. On a total area of 12,360 acres of which only 1,400 are under cultivation, live whites and blacks in a density of 1,520 persons...
...Poor blocking, and lack of coordinated offensive play caused the Jayvee's downfall. Captain Knapp, and Bill Giles, riht tackle, stood out in the line for the Crimson seconds, and Jerome was doing some good work in the back-field...
...topple it over in the crude manner of the undergraduates at Charlottesville. It is one thing to call a spade a spade, but quite another to show Virginia's complete lack of respect for the other side of the question. That university should realize that the remedy for a poor football team is to concentrate upon the development of a better one and not the attitude of many American schools who desire to have "the best team money...