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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman who fall'28 receive an arbitrary 75 on their English entrance examination are forced to take an additional course, English A-1, without credit. Since the majority of men who find the first year difficult are in this group, this means that the poor student must take five courses while their mental superiors only take four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH A-1 | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...majority of 344,569 votes to only 7,784 for former President Charles D. B. King, candidate of the Unit Whigs and the languishing People's Party. Passed too was an amendment increasing the Presidential term from four to eight years. Part of Unit Whig King's poor showing may have been due to the fact that he was forced to resign the Presidency in 1930 after a nasty scandal connected with slave-running to Spanish Fernando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Whig v. Whig | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...blue-nosed, inhibited, Watch-and-Warder wants the real hot-pants, he needn't go pestering the poor Lampoon boys; I have just what he wants in stock, and will make more to order; I write it myself, and I'm proud of it. Richard Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Pornographia" | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

...indicated, ballot will not be counted. Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Jr. Anthony Addison Bliss Thornton Brown Frank Stanton Deland, Jr. Raymond Dennett Braman Gibbs Milton Gabriel Green John Robert Haley Robert Carlton Hall Benjamin Harding Hallowell Shaun Kelly, Jr. Francis Keyes Milton Sellg Palsner Robert Smith Playfair Henry Varnum Poor Edwin Howard Baker Pratt Thomas Henry Quinn Robert Morton Terrall LeMoyne White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote in Student Council Elections Today--1936 Elects Six; 1937 Three--Eight Additional Will Be Appointed | 5/21/1935 | See Source »

Pieter Vos was a sallow, bandy-legged little city boy, who hated his menial job and poor prospects, jumped at the chance to make a pile as a rubber planter. When the rubber company took him on and paid him a month's salary in advance Piet had big visions. They began to get knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Dutchman | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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