Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff speech of Senator Underwood. Senator Blease mouthed the Constitution of South Carolina and described the life and death of Jefferson Davis. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania mumbled election returns from his state, said he hoped to reach Georgia by dawn. A correspondent in the press gallery whispered: "Poor fellow, Reed would stand on his head on the Senate floor if Bill Vare asked him. . . ." The Senate restaurant was out of coffee. Mr. Heflin was asleep on a lounge; a thoughtful jester had covered him with a red drapery...
Automobiles had become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss...
...sake of Publicity on the one hand, and on the other, to prevent a certain extremely salacious play from reaching New York. "The Virgin Man's one of the plays involved in the censorship, was playing to empty houses, for the very good reason that it was a very poor play. Now the enormous publicity given it, has not only kept it alive but has sent it capacity audiences...
...Todd had a more pungent report to make from his anatomical laboratory findings. He told it to the College of Physicians as they dined. Since 1913 he has been measuring the brains of corpses brought to the refrigerating room of Western Reserve medical school. These cadavers had been poor people, suicides, social derelicts...
...strong Yale defense. Quick, accurate passing and deadly accuracy in basket shooting quickly ran up the Crimson total. Leekley and Dorn, fed by passes from the other members of the team, together accounted for five field goals. The Eli basketeers had but few opportunities to score and failed through poor shooting to convert any of these opportunities into points. Their total of four points for the period came from free throws. Goals from foul added seven points to the Harvard total...