Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unknown anywhere in the world before 1922 is the disease now called granulopenia. During the past three years it killed 1,300 U. S. people, mostly housewives. Physicians, nurses and their families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them...
...black and blue from head to foot that very moment. She had been dragged from her hotel in her night robe, flung into a stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept from a toilet all the 28 hours, flung into a filthy bath tub where the outlet was plugged up from vomit broken teeth and the hair of other victims...
...date pension and group insurance plan for his faculty. His announced objectives are a badly-needed new library building and more student scholarships. He is glad that two-fifths of Princeton's 2,500 students are earning part of their expenses and wants more poor but brainy students. Overshadowing all other aims, however, is his desire to expand and bolster his social science departments, prepare businesslike statesmen and statesmanlike businessmen for the era of government in business which he is sure is coming. No more radical than Dodds the educator is Dodds the political expert...
Rich, imperious and never a man to feign false modesty, Cardinal O'Connell is discreet in print. He tells how. a poor boy of eleven, he worked for one morning in a Lowell cotton mill, but he fails to mention his present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal...
August discovers that he is not so poor as he thought. With a windfall in his lap he neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent...