Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Small local stations have greater appeal to low-income groups than to higher earning brackets. Likely reasons: the poor listener likes to hear of advertisers with whom he is familiar; foreign born like local programs in their own language; farmers like to hear folksy shows, Bible-hours that never get on the chains...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...season the Orange and Black have been troubled with infield bobbles and poor hitting in the pinches. Most dangerous of the Tiger batsmen is Ben Tate in the number three slot...
Wellesley leads the co-ed picket line with six women in active service. On being questioned, one of the more attractive members of the female contingent charged that "the poor cabbles are ever-burdened with the transportation of Harvard drunks. Something must be done to improve the lot of these poor, set-chauffeuring individuals, and I feel it is up to us Wellesley girls to take the first step in remedying this unconstitutional situation...
...Radcliffe pickets on questioning seemed to disagree with her compatriot, claiming that "it is up to us Radcliffe girls to take the first step. We will see to it that the poor cabbies will be able to take care of as girls as well in the future after all we need as much help as some of the Harvard...