Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs are genteel but poor, and Mr. Walter Connolly is very poor. Everyone is in love throughout the play, but with different persons, and Miss Gaynor, the only communicative lover, is full of romantic mendacity, and cannot be relied upon...
...teaching rather than the research function, which will have to be reinforced and elaborated to meet the pace of modern life. A new frontier for medical advancement has been opened in America; the social and economic field. The depression has pointed out the vast gap between the poor farmer's purse and the metropolitan specialist's price for advice or operation. Scientific treatment in developing from the nightmare practices of early medicine, has also become expensive...
discouraged him. Turning to a coffeehouse, he was near to joining a sober looking man drinking a dish of chocolate, but a brawl suddenly broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views...
...Ihlder will trace modern zoning back to the days of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, pointing out the effects of poor city planning, and the social results that are derived from it. He will also show how poor city planning has been bettered by experience through the ages...
Wherever a bank has some loans that are of slow, or doubtful repayment in full, the bank is supposed to set up a reserve of capital to meet the possible loss. But the banks find in some instances that their capital is not sufficient to write off their poor loans or that what is known as capital impairment would take place even if all the loans were repaid, this being the result of large write-offs in the past two years...