Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White rats, white mice and Gila monsters showed no response at all, presumably have extremely poor vision...
...Frogs, toads, alligators and opossums showed weak responses, have poor vision...
...majority of U. S. doctors last year decided that they would continue to treat the poor for nothing. But an articulate minority want the Government to pay the medical bills of the indigent, also the expenses of medical schools, research institutions and hospitals. When the American Medical Association meets in San Francisco June 13, this doctors' quarrel, now a distant thunderhead, is expected to break into a real storm...
...that they had not acquired through mortgage foreclosures-and these they had to get rid of again within five years. Most other States followed New York. But between 1921 and 1926 when there was a shortage of houses in the U. S. and real estate no longer seemed a poor investment, New York added an amendment: Insurance companies could buy land if they immediately put up buildings on it, if all their real-estate holdings did not amount to more than 10% of their assets, if the rent they charged was not more than $9 a month a room. Other...
...stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full wallet, the wallet full of grandfather's money (rest him), or father's money (good old Dad). Or perhaps even other people's money (poor suckers). But the sheen is still present, although better disguised. Sometimes it is in the face, where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will...