Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureau was closed in 1936 and 1937 because its free legal advice to poor people was thought to be in itself an illegal function, but since its reopening last Fall, the number of cases handled compares well with peak years before the break...
Conceding Huntington School only one second place and five thirds, the Yardling tankmen rolled up a total of 58 points to their opponents' eight yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building pool. Because none of the Crimson swimmers were pressed, the times turned in were generally poor, but Wheeler Smith, tallying 60.28 points in the dive, showed improvement. This is his first year of competitive diving...
...Poor Records In Middleweights...
...Poor discipline and short-handedness were usual conditions of Congress's navy, which reached its peak in 1777 and then declined rapidly to seven vessels. Three-masted and square-rigged, the frigates and sloops of war were small and fast, with a gun range as far as one-half mile. Of the three top U. S. commanders, John Paul Jones is the best known in history and balladry. Son of a Scotch gardener, a true corsair and soldier of fortune, he served first under John Barry and Hopkins. When given command of a sloop, he sailed to Brest, seized many...
...modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, [bound together by] a cannibalistic greed, hatred, and fear...