Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former subject of the empire that the sun never sets on, permit me to apologize for a fellow Britisher. That letter of uninhibited Canadian Reader Barton plainly reveals that the poor devil's condition is congenital...
...President's not taking Congress into his confidence was that everybody was occupied with "something else": Nov. 3, 1936. Unless new taxes are imposed, fiscal 1937 is likely to show a deficit of upwards of $5,000,000.000, largest in any year of Depression or Recovery -a very poor election argument for the New Deal. Since processing taxes re-enacted under the name of excises can be called substitutes rather than new taxes, they will not prevent the President from keeping his promise of "no new taxes." The same might be said of "retro-active exactions," of dubious constitutionality...
...poor old age or age for play...
...third place he did not say "Yale has a pretty lousy crew right now." He said it has been reported that Yale has a poor crew at present, and added that by Race Day Ed Leader would put a very good crew on the starting line...
...jury decided otherwise after hearing that; 1) The Morro Castle was not thoroughly inspected in port because she did not stay long enough. 2) Fire drills were rarely held, never thoroughly. 3) Fire-fighting equipment was in such poor shape as to be virtually useless. 4) Mr. Cabaud knew the regulations were not complied with, ignored them in order to keep the liner busy. 5) Captain Warms had no command over his crew, which was completely disorganized. 6) During the fire, he hesitated too long in sending out an SOS, failed to tend to the passengers until too late, handled...