Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the open slopes are good, but the trails are poor. However, the United States Weather Bureau forecasts snow and colder today, which will undoubtedly improve conditions...
...pamphlet form for the benefit of the New Workers' School. It is indicative of his mastery of rhythm and sense. Healy s a poet who thinks, not the frenzied Vates of popular imagination. His "Portrait" bears the spiritual and ethical features of a contemporary figure; the broker, like the poor, is always with us, even if the knight-errant is dead and buried and has not even left a successor in the G-men. Healy's five stanzas are a study in free will; the last may be quoted here...
...since the sun entered a new cycle two years ago (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933), started climbing irregularly toward the intensity peaks due in 1938. Vortices of cooling gas on the solar surface, sunspots in their times of vigor have been associated by scientists with magnetic disturbances on Earth and poor radio reception...
...follows: ¶ The decoration of the outer cup corresponds remarkably with other authenticated ist Century Roman pieces. ¶ The earliest known reproductions of the Eucharist, in the 3rd and 4th Centuries, give it exactly the form of this cup. Christians in 75 A. D. were already numerous but very poor. The outer cup must have cost a great deal of money which would only be spent on an object of the greatest religious importance. ¶ Though, the outer cup was gilded twice to preserve it, the silver of the crude inner cup was never touched. ¶ The faces of Christ...
...with much mutton and wine and heard loose gossip of the queen. By and by a strange drowsiness came upon me--I fear from too much mutton--and I did dream a most strange dream, one more fit to fall upon the mind of our prophetic Bacon than a poor Vagabond like...