Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saturday was also a poor day, with only $750 coming into the coffers. Late Freshmen and an extra high percent of upperclassmen coming in sent Monday's money over the $1750 mark but still was not enough to equal...
...year ago last spring Cowles was forced to give up his tennis work due to nervous disorders, and, with his health poor this summer, Bingham decided to give him an absence leave...
Although Lazaro Cardenas is a poor, mumbling speaker without Latin fire or grace, the General brought Mexico's pistol-toting Congressmen to their feet shouting "Viva!" again & again last week. They saw at once that with almost every word President Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there...
Quipped LaGuardia, remembering that only last December Mayor Ellenstein was indicted for conspiracy to defraud his own city in the purchase of land for Newark Airport: "Poor Meyer is so troubled with . . . the pickle...
...more." For him the White House was "ghastly with bloody and dreary associations"; Cleveland gratified him only by the "astounding denseness" of his intelligence, and as for Roosevelt, "if he tried me ten years ago. he crushes me now." Dinners at the White House were deadly, with poor food, poor liquor and Roosevelt howling anecdotes about the Rough Riders...