Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heurtley, who lived at 14 Garden Street last year, was forced to leave school because of poor health. All indications seemed to prove that his latest venture was a frantic effort to reach Palm Beach before the height of the winter season...
...Farmers briefly relates the history of farming in the U. S., describes modern farming methods, tells how Tip Estes, a typical Indiana farmer, and his family work and live; discusses the income of rich and poor farmers, tenants, sharecroppers and laborers; sums up what the Government would or could do for farmers. What makes Building America unique is the extraordinary illustrations that tell the story so well that they need little explanatory text. Notably communicative photographs in Our Farmers include a grimy farmer drinking water from a tin cup beside his tractor, Tip Estes' family of eight sitting down...
...players: Jimmy Dykes (now manager of the Chicago White Sox), Herb Pennock, Chief Bender, Rube Waiberg, Howard Ehmke. Then he quietly thanked them all, made a short speech and rode back to his Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score...
...pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots seldom see him. Weekends he plays poor but occasionally inspired polo at the Riviera Country Club, where he has a one-goal rating. That he has any rating at all he attributes to the fact that he pays a pretty big club bill...
...Chicago and gilt-edged the world around. Nonetheless, in the previous four years it had lost $13,200,000 and the directors were so worried that they hired a business analyst named James O. Mc-Kinsey to study the matter. Hulking, robust J. O. McKinsey was born a poor boy, became a professor, had never held a corporate job. But when he made his report after four months work, the directors were so impressed that they took a step drastic in any business and completely unprecedented in Field's 70-year-history of rooted conservatism-they made...