Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting finish of the fall sculling regatta finals held yesterday afternoon, Richard G. Ames '34, rowing in the half-mile narrow comp race, nosed out John A. Carley '36 by a margin of a scant two feet. Farley got away to a poor start, but soon made up the ground he had lost: 15 yards from the finish he was leading by a quarter of a length, when Ames, in a sudden sprint, shot ahead to take the race. The time was 3 minutes, 45 seconds...
...young, then fail, it will be our fault, but we should at least be given a chance to feel our way. We cannot in this respect fall down more miserably than have our elders. Henry V. Poor...
...does not follow the crudities of the old pattern. She is, and believably, intelligent yet naive, talented yet over-ambitious. The smooth gentleman of the tragedy (Adolphe Menjou) is no villain, but a great producer and an excellent fellow whose large acquaintance with chorus-girls has made him a poor judge of Eva's infatuation. It is all very natural: no heroics, no shot-guns are in order. The situation is restrained and therefore really moving...
...time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They...
...front again, as so many observers are willing to predict, for their zeal has cooled and their money is padlocked, and mere subsistence is difficult for them. The kind of war which we spell with a capital letter is very, very remote; but there is another kind which the poor in all nations and at all times have embraced, and which is, God knows, terrible enough for any taste...