Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped the nursery business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
...sight, have already placed their applications for internships with hospitals throughout the U.S. Some hospital staffs have gained high esteem in the medical schools not only for their knowledge but, more important, their tutoring ability. Such hospitals are already flooded with applications, while most others, generally of poor teaching facilities and low prestige, will later have to advertise and wheedle for interns...
...Then Mr. Mencken arose: " The reason we attacked this poor fool* and ruined him was an effort to substitute the courts of law for back-alley assassination. . . . From now on we are going to make these fellows bring their charges into the open. . . . And they're easy to beat. We've just proved that. When you get after them, 99% will run, and the other 1% is easy picking...
...changes have been made in the schedule of the tennis team as it was originally announced. The first game which was arranged on the way south with the Agawan Hunt Club of Providence has been cancelled on account of the poor conditions of the club's courts...
...arrests and blacklists the poor devil gone wrong, but lets the moving picture houses, vaudeville theatres, dancing halls, and many other places where corruption is insidiously displayed and methodically preached and could be had for the asking, have their own way. Or does not Mr. Chase know that even church dances contribute to corruption? He should have come with me to a Methodist dance where a member of the church, a beautiful young lady, half naked, with hay around her waist, danced, personifying the cave woman...