Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very heavy percentage, for a Catholic population of several hundred millions. (There were more than 175,000 divorces in the U.S. last year.) The Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official gazette of the Vatican, duly reports the facts of cases before the Rota. They run about 50-50, rich and poor. So much for that. If the cases of nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon...
Costs. The budget has been thrown out of balance and the Government's expenses for the year were last week $421,345,000 in excess of revenue.* As an example, the cost of poor relief mounted $29,000,000 beyond expectations. The miners themselves lost $325,000,000 in wages; and are now forced to accept $12 a week and less per man. The loss on curtailed coal production was $480,000,000. Of losses to allied industries the leading railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that...
...reasons given for the change are these: "to make the course of study flexible enough to be adapted to the needs and desires of the individual and to lay down requirements designed primarily for the assistance of the good rather than for the support of the poor student...
...part responsible for his visits to the U. S. (1883 and 1886). The fastidious Arnold, England's apostle of culture, was little pleased with the U. S., but felt much the same toward the England of his day. Upon his death in 1888, Oscar Wilde remarked: "Poor Arnold, he won't like...
...Sullivan's stenographer, with a penchant for turning somersaults and handsprings in the office, taking dictation while dangling by one leg from a chandelier, and using her employer's purple suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with her. But if you can't, he tells you. As, for example, getting her to take dictation, which he sets forth thus: "Miss Hepplethwaite, take a letter...Why not?..Don't I pay you to take letters, or did you think I had you around here just...