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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas, a poor man's horse, belongs to Alexander Gordon of Louisville, onetime trainer for Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt and Cartoonist Bud Fisher. Sir Thomas finished his two-year-old season a "maiden," never having won a race. But had he not jumped a path on the course at the Futurity, observers say he would have beaten Singing Wood. Form-players can justify their fancy for Sir Thomas by recalling that Sir Barton in 1919 and Broker's Tip last year entered the Derby as ''maidens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: St. Edward of Lexington | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...best students, who have no particular interest in the field of science, to get off the necessary requirement. None of the elementary courses in these fields stimulates the student to think scientifically, and the laboratory periods are definitely not conducive to such thinking. Very often this is due to poor assistants who are put in charge of the laboratory sections and to the lax manner in which the courses are run. The first difficulty can be met by placing men well-qualified in their field in charge of laboratories. The second difficulty is probably attributable to the large number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLIED SCIENCE | 5/4/1934 | See Source »

...Bride for the Unicorn" on its opening night and who can appreciate to a certain degree the modern trends in the drama, let me say that I personally believe that the CRIMSON Playgoer showed an immense amount of tact and as great a degree of poor judgment in letting the Harvard Dramatic Club off so lightly. To be sure, it was an experiment and it was courageous. But farther than that it is difficult to praise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down With the Dramatic Club | 5/4/1934 | See Source »

...seems to me that the Dramatic Club did a very poor job of an unusually poor play. The acting was spotty, the scenery was dilapidated and the lighting left the players walking off into the shadows for no good reason. Humanity would have been benefited and the H.D.C. could have kept its face if the University had seconded Miss Comstock's ban, if not for her reason. (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down With the Dramatic Club | 5/4/1934 | See Source »

...Pioneers will sally forth with: cox, Wendell J. Torbey '36; stroke, Walier W. Birge Jr. '35; 7, Frederick H. Poor, Jr. '34; 6, Henry G. Pearson, Jr. '34; 5, James L. Stuart '36; 4, Winthrop H. Lee '36; 3, Henry S. Miller '35; 2, Lawrence vonB. Nichols '35; bow, Edward C. Streeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

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