Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonial Georgian outlines from Cambridge to Allston is not a college; it is a university. So when one complacently views the welcomed and feted members of the freshman class in the college and forgets the poor, straggling, unoriented souls who are to form the first year classes of the graduate schools, one is not thinking of his university in true terms...
Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and in pursuance of their calling they resort to many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last...
...happy old man, doing just as he pleases. After the Civil War he came to the U. S. from Germany and by 1905 had become sufficiently rich (coal, mines, New Jersey Zinc Co.) to retire. He thought to devote all his time to ameliorating the living conditions of poor children. He likes them, pities them. But business oppor-tunities-railroads, steel works, Manhattan and Florida realty-knocked, assiduously, made him richer...
...acre park ground on Long Island. And only a few days before he was seen "bounding," he had returned from a European study trip with plans for sanitary, low-rent, "model" tenements, such as the Rockefellers and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have planned for New York poor...
...soon hopeless spinsters, Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...