Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Records show," cried one of Col. Wilgus' assistants, "that accidents have been less since boondoggles and similar activities gave poor children something to do and kept them off the street...
...earn, scrimp, save and toilsomely amass the Chinese equivalent of seven U. S. dollars may take an industrious Shanghai coolie seven years. Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple...
...William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those of most composers. His parents were not rich but neither were they poor. They realized his genius but they refused to exploit him. Trouble developed after he attempted to make his own way in the world. Audiences were accustomed, then, to pianists who pounded in heavy Germanic fashion. Chopin's style was delicate and subtle, more suited to his own music than...
Sudden as it was, the death of Publisher Ochs was not unexpected. For more than a year his own New York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came...
...other alternative, that of raising money from the alumni, the present is obviously a poor time. Even if the sum could be contributed, it would seem almost criminal not to use it for more strictly educational purposes, where it is so sorely needed, namely in professorial salaries...