Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force of Fascist arms. The Labor Party swept up a comfortable majority of the seats in London's County Council, Conservative stronghold for the past 27 years, and took over the job of spending $600,000,000 in the next three years on education, firefighting, housing and poor relief for 4,500,000 people...
...poor and bedraggled little animal that was led around Soldiers Field last fall between the halves of the football game. Handsome Dan was a lovable pet, but his success as a mascot was open to grave question. His enthusiasm for his masters seemed ever dilatory, and although he watched the Blues thrive in the field of winter sports, even this could hardly regain the prestige he had lost in the fall...
...Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...
When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
...itself with the life of a shrewd and ruthless horse-trader. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor financial standing, the boy hesitates to propose marriage to a wealthy girl with whom he is deeply in love. Upon the advice of the horse trader, the young man places all his money...