Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds of hands dealt after one, two, three and four shuffles, Mr. Woodruff shows that it takes at least four good shuffles to produce the proper quota of uneven distribution. With the help of an M. I. T. colleague, he has invented...
Freshmen have again chosen swimming as their most popular winter sport, statistics on file at the Department of Hygiene reveal. As was the case last year, squash trails a short distance behind and participation in Special Corrective Exercises is a poor third...
...causes of the poor showing on Wednesday night was the reckless abuse of the foul rule by the Crimson, Harvard committed 21 fouls...
There are undoubtedly numbers in Harvard College who think that cooperation with the government a poor policy, but although noted as a liberal college, Harvard is not the nest of radicals and fools that some of the former letters and editorials would indicate...
...exhibited at the Germanic Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this...