Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeking a suitable, workable plan is commendable. When world peace and cooperation is so unquestionably the most suitable background for human happiness, humanitarians throughout the world will support and extend any intelligent plan which works toward this ultimate goal. For the production of a symphony, $5000 is a poor price indeed...
...bureau was closed this fall because of a recent act of the legislature after operating since 1913 as a free legal office for the poor of Cambridge...
While the original idea of a dramatic workshop came, like many another good thing, from Harvard University, our present facilities are incredibly poor. There is a striking need for the English Department again to provide itself with a real personality of the drama. When this bread is cast upon the waters, there will return such genuine love for the drama, that Harvard will build itself a college playhouse...
This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...
...diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell was a man of yesterday who simply could not understand that a new era had dawned." Last week, on being informed...