Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the German phantasy "Barbering," despite the drafts and poor projection facilities of the Germanic Museum, attracted a flattering audience last April, the German Department announced its intention to sponsor a regular series of such productions, henceforth to be offered in the more commodious amphitheater of the Geographical Institute. Thus far the plan, admirable as it is, has borne no palpable fruit...
Because she admires rich, pious Conservative Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett as much as she despises poor, pious Pacifist Prime Minister MacDonald, Lady Houston picked a likely horse last year, named him "R. B. Bennett" and had the satisfaction of seeing him win the North Derby at Newcastle. Last week in her large fore-cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review...
During the three years covered, 2,041 New York City mothers died in childbirth. More than one-half of them (1,343) need not have died. Were they women too ignorant or too poor to go to the doctor? No-only about one-third of the needless deaths were due to the failure of mothers to take advantage of professional care. Amazing fact introduced by the committee was that 61.1% of needless deaths were chargeable to the medical profession. "Some of these situations," thundered the report, "have arisen out of the fact that internes have been given too wide...
Tell their poor old mothers, Which by all accounts...
...slaves and the fact that some of the victors received none, forced free men into competition with slave labor, resulted in their eventual bankruptcy, led to their being hired by richer men, and so led finally to the division into capitalistic and wage-earning classes. A few of the poor free men being more ingenious than the rest, turned then talents to the manufacture of goods offered first for barter and later for sale. Here we have the beginning of the artisan class. At a later date the merchant class sprang up to facilitate the process of exchange...