Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selfish conduct. Then Baxter, the only logical character in the whole cast, makes the only illogical move of his performance when he humbly bows to his vacillating wife, and all live happily ever after. Tragic, we should say, tragic especially when the writer of the script himself deserts the poor here...
...vasotone is poor to a certain point, the patient certainly will die during or after the operation, no matter how good the surgeon or the surgery...
RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Chase -Whittlesey House...
...problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants to know why something is not done. Last week Stuart Chase offered a typical volume to stand beside his The Tragedy of Waste. In Rich Land, Poor Land, he discusses for 347 pages the natural resources of the U. S., their exhaustion, misapplication, cost and preservation...
...least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their country but they are more likely to close Rich Land, Poor Land, with an uneasy feeling that Author Chase has pulled some white rabbits out of his statistics, that there must be greater obstacles to his program than he admits...