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Word: poor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierce Butler was a poor boy, born near Northfield, Minn., on March 17, 1866, but he had no Lincolnian tenderness for those in humble circumstances. His own bitter struggle to the top only taught him that those who were successful need not be held responsible for those who failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Solid Man | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Score: Harvard 2, Yale 1. Goals--Haines, Page, Mendel. Harvard Substitutions: Halstead, Willetts, Staber, Myeroson, Poor, Neff, Merrill, Barnes, Hanford. Yale Substitutions: MacGregor, Pascal Courses, Hopkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Lineup | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...Yale News ascribes the poor showing of Saturday to the Price of the tickets: $3.85 for every seat in the Bowl. Calling for an H-Y-P conference to revise the price scale, the News is rooting for a double rate-$3.50 for seats between the goal lines, and $2.20 for the end zones, on the ground that "the days when crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOLA BLUES | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Pitts was suppressed because, as a leader of a "Trotskyite organization", it was felt in poor taste to let him speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...luxury or a slightly silly passion, a rare specialty with scholars, a cliché or nothing to the people at large. Greek is hard to learn (though not much harder than German) and U. S. education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology, not to Thucydides. In art the "primitive" has seemed more fruitful than the Classical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: New History | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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