Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more indirect way, through the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier. Again he refused it. Somewhat to my surprise there appeared on the outside of your magazine [Oct. 1] a picture of Dr. MacCracken taken when he took part in a Greek play at Vassar. The photograph itself was a very poor one but it amused us for the time. Of course it was of mere passing interest and is not one that anyone would have sent you from here...
...pass over Professor Wiener's sneer about the "journalistic status" of certain writers. Journalists must be excused for writing less and less about more and more, otherwise the poor public might lose touch with the profundities of modern research, and not endow the Great Minds with a lifetime (not to mention innumerable vacations and sabbatical years) in which to grow wiser and wiser...
...even suppose that the German universities were destroyed, and the professors with them. It might not amount to much as opposed to the dynamics of history. The poor people who would be left might not speak in the scholastic sense, with authority, but they might, as they have done before, still speak with intelligence. It is too bad that professorial geniuses must die, if Professor Wiener's argument is good, but one notices, in looking through a thousand years, that others, and even smarter, come along to fill their shoes...
...Detect Poor Speech...
...munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting to blow up the Panama Canal and blame it on the Japanese, so that the America-Japanese war will not take so long in coming about. In her efforts to return to her native land our poor Marie becomes hopelessly involved in the machinations of these sons of Mars and is saved from a spy's death only by the love and cleverness of that bright young knight-errant Spencer Tracy. It's much better than it sounds, though it does make international relations look humorously simple...