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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mrs. Bijur last week: "I just know these people, and even though they are poor they are right. I am helping to avert a revolution in this country by feeding them. What we need to end labor strife is more religion, more charity and a greater obedience to the will of God. ... Six more of the strikers' wives are pregnant, and it looks as if I will have quite a hospital bill by summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Tenants' Revolution | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...rich countries are getting poorer," boasted plump Dr. Walther Funk, Reichsminister of Economics, in Rome last week, "and the young poor ones getting richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coffee Shortage | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Lancaster, Lincoln, North Woodstock, Warren, and Whitefield all report fair skiing, but the rest of the well known trails are either poor or unusable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Section | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

...junior officer's hatred for his superior. Between too frequent shots of Errol Flynn's frank; boyish face, there are healthy little sermons about "the criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward, but the flying sequences are good. The picture is sans love interest, with nary a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

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