Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medicine has come from them. They can tap the best in equipment and men, and are proving the most adequate method of succoring the urban population that can pay little or nothing for medical care. The problem now before the medical profession is how to finance care for the poor in the clinics and continue their research activities...
Claude Pepper's votes next week will be drawn, generally speaking, from Florida's few liberals and its many poor. Sectionally, he is strongest nearest home, in the north...
...admits further that the measures taken have broken up many collective farms and condemned the members to starvation. The purge of the peasants must end. Stalin orders, and by his order illuminates the lot of the poor muzhik under a gigantic trial-&-error system that, from his point of view, supported by periodic turnarounds in the Kremlin, seems to be mostly error...
...Thurstone's tests furnished scientific evidence that, while people who rank high in one mental ability are likely to score well in the others, frequently an individual may be strong in one faculty, weak in another. Thus people of superior intellect sometimes have poor memory. An individual may have a good memory for faces and a poor one for names, or vice versa. In the one case he ranks low in ability with words; in the other, he is deficient in visual imagery...
...thirst of Indians for a white man. But it was just talk. Author Hanson hardly realized he had been through savage country until he came out and heard the same scare stories all over again. Venezuela officials were touchy hysterics, but no worse than nuisances; the Indians were merely poor. He grew a beard, however, since without one, said other explorers, his trip would impress no one and he would never get his picture in the rotogravure sections at home...