Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-three per cent of U. S. citizens have poor eyesight before they reach 20, 48% before 40. Today more than 63,000 are blind and 100 times as many becoming blind. Heaviest strain on most people's eyes occurs during their school days. Last week the American Standards Association issued a new code calling for considerably more light in U. S. classrooms to save children's eyesight...
...member of his race does the saying "poor as a Chinaman" apply less than to Joe Shoong. His 1937 salary was $141,000; National Dollar dividends brought him $40,000 more. (He and his family own a comfortable 51% of National Dollar stock; most of the rest is owned in small lots by various less affluent Chinese.) He has one daughter at Columbia, another at Stanford, a son at a preparatory school, and he has built a school for some 350 children in the Cantonese village in China where his father was born. He lives in a large stucco house...
...Summing Up begins with a discouraging catalogue of Maugham's reasons for not writing an autobiography. He has a poor memory. His life has not been adventurous. He has written so many novels that he can scarcely distinguish fact from fiction in his work. "I can never remember a good story," he complains, "till I hear it again and then I forget it before I have had a chance to tell it to somebody else." But he realized that it would "exasperate" him if he should die before he had written down his thoughts on the subjects that have...
...country doctor is one which has always appealed to the public as being representative of the best qualities in American character. The typical picture is of an elderly old-school physician braving the wilds of blizzards to bring medical aid to the suffering. Usually he is thought of as poor and self-sacrificing, frequently giving his services for nothing, or possibly in exchange for some of the produce of a farm...
...Poor Bride," this year's production of the Idler Club of Radcliffe has its premiere tonight in the Agassiz Theatre at 8.15 o'clock...