Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole to introduce a rejuvenated college spirit into Dartmouth. After several poor seasons on the gridiron, the diamond and the track, and concurrent with the disillusionment and flight of hope that naturally accompanies a period of economic despair, the college felt that its life-blood was being sapped and its spirit was falling into the doldrums...
...Vagabond enjoys the sound and fury, the pomp and circumstances. It would be a poor thing to worship a god who never caused an earthquake, who never created a monkey...
When we saw part of the literary flotsam cast up by last weekend's inundation of the Advocate Building's cellar we were again reminded of how poor a navigator was Miss Emily Dickinson. "There is no frigate like a book," wrote she with, to be sure, great joy but with little sensitivity for the nuances of wet lambskin...
...incidentally concerned with winning. In reality, even more than most crack players, he is deadly serious about tennis. Determined to win one important championship in 1933, he had trained a whole year for last week's final. Crawford, despite his sturdy appearance, was last week suffering from the poor condition which has been widespread among top tennis players in 1933. He had had too much championship tennis. He was too nervous to sleep before the semi-finals : he suffered from night sweats, a twisted knee and palpitations of the heart. After the rest, during which Crawford admitted...
...Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement: a good book needs no prize. The Carvers were Georgia crackers, pre-Civil War era. By "civilized" or "modern" standards, they were poor whites-but not trash. Their simple life was as hard, as complicated, as any city folks' ; the same things happened to them, with less dis guise. Cean was the first to get married; she went only a few miles away, to Lonzo's cabin. It was a happy...