Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taking it all in all it was a rather poor article...
...monopoly of service to Suicide Point, does everything to discourage crater leaps. He has obtained a police order forcing would-be passengers to buy round-trip tickets, claims thus to assure that all will return, actually makes the suicide pay double for his ticket to Death. Far too poor to pay President Hayashi 3 yen (85?) for a ticket to Suicide Point, many of Tokyo's suicides, which average four per day, die super-cheaply by eating rat poison...
...whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...
...summaries: HARVARD 11 POLO RANCH 10 No. 1, T. Winmill '37 No. 1, Jack Pickering No. 2, P. Jay '36 No. 2, Lyle Phillips No. 3, T. Davis '35, Capt. No. 3, Joe Poor...
Goals: Phillips 5; Davis, Poor 4; Jay, Pickering 3; Winmill 2. Fouls: Phillips, Poor 2; Winmill, Davis...