Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Poor government is caused by men not acting together and not being united on the same questions. The city is only a large club, so it would seem that the simplicity of its object would ensure success. Yet a city government will not run itself and there is need of continual watchfulness and bright intelligence...
...homespun truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does not force the pathetic note, but he repeats it too often perhaps within the compass of one volume; and "Beside the Bonny Briar...
Today under the auspices of the Student Volunteer Committee of the University, an opportunity will be given to all students to make gifts of clothing for distribution by wise and responsible charitable agencies among the poor of Boston and vicinity...
...contemporaries of snobbery. They said that he tried to make himself better than other men by accumulating his library. De Bury answered these charges by saying that his reason for collecting books was that he might leave them at his death to establish a library for the use of poor students at Oxford. He says that he wrote the "Philobiblon" to justify his great love of books...
...lenses by inexperienced hands at the Isthmus of Panama. From Mollendo the instrument will be taken by rail about 75 miles inland to Arequipa. The chief difficulty will be met there in transferring the heavy machinery to the observatory about three miles away, as the roads are very poor and the means of transportation even worse...