Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least two minutes ahead of all other University clocks, and at least five minutes ahead of Eastern Standard Time. A cute little rope is stretched across the entrance to the dining hall. In front of the little rope stands that imposing personage, Miss Murray. Cerberus-like, she prevents us poor mortals from passing through the sacred adit...
...gone. To be poor is to be happy. To be secure is to have everything. Wealth and position are not to be desired. Happiness is a more elusive thing and may be found right in anyone's modest cottage on the edge of Middletown. How deeply this Philosophy penetrates, how permanent it will be, I do not guess. It does seem to be, however, a dominant note today. TERTIUS...
...POOR SPLENDID WINGS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown...
...main chance. Swedish legend relates how at the age of nine he developed a thriving business in baskets and ash trays woven from tin strips dumped outside herring canneries, how he organized his playmates to make and sell his product, how he thrashed them when their salesmanship was poor. Son of a Swedish count, he later worked in Gothenburg but, restless and energetic, went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled all over the world. Before the War he picked out vacuum cleaners as a likely product to distribute. But the War stopped...
...House of Morgan in this country had financed the Hitler Revolution, he answered, "I think is is just a rumor like other rumors and without any foundation. Besides, had foreign bankers meant to keep German workers subjugated by financing the Hitler Revolution, this would indeed betray an extremely poor judgment. Hitler's aim in by no means to subjugate the German workman, but to lift him to his proper-position within the larger community of the German people. Hitler feels himself personally much nearer to the German workman and peasant than to any other part of the German people...