Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows a great deal about herbs can buy the required dose at the market for a third of a cent. This failing, he can attend a one-peso consultation held every afternoon for the poor by the very best surgeons in the capital...
Bolero is supposed to resemble the life of the late Dancer Maurice Mouvet. George Raft dances capably. His costume and appearance are faintly suggestive of the late Rudolph Valentino. With a straight face he recites such lines as: "I trust your marriage has turned out happy." Poor shot: Raft trying to look moved beside his father's grave...
...University of Chicago was a poor second with 41 men, while the University of California, with 31, had a narrow edge over Columbia's 29. Yale ranked fifth with 28, and Princeton was twelfth with 22. When the ranking was adjusted to the size of the colleges, Harvard dropped to ninth place, having 3.28 men honored for each 100 on the staff...
Bartram Kelley 1G (L) defeated Charles McL. Hadley '35 (A) 3-1; William S. North '36 (A) defeated Laurens E. Rhinelander 1L (L) 3-1; John A. Luetkemeyer 1L (L) defeated Harrison D. Smith '34 (A) 3-1; Emlen W. Holmes '35 (L) defeated Henry V. Poor '36 (A) 3-0; Robert M. Campbell '34 (L) defeated Howard Rosenfeld...
...Companions"--unless he wrote it just for the fun of thinking over on paper what he had read. It is not criticism; it can scarcely even be dignified by the vague name "appreciation"; it is merely a "Names and Numbers of all the Players"; a guide-book, and a poor one at that...