Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a poor egg? One with either watery or turbid white, a yolk that flattens out or bursts because of its thinned membrane, a dull appearance throughout the contents...
During the last few years bank failures have become common, the number mounting into the hundreds in Minnesota alone. I am familiar with homes where after a lifetime of hard work, people are forced to live on the small allowance available from the poor fund. I know mothers who are supporting several children on a sum of $15 or $20 a month from the same fund. I know how they are housed and clothed and what rents they pay, but imagination balks when confronted with how they keep warm and what they...
...might result in considerable interest savings to the U.S. because: 1) bills need be sold only when money is actually required; 2) there would be no chance for error such as the Treasury's offering an issue at an unnecessarily high rate of interest (by reason of a poor estimate as to what rate will sell an issue), or offering an issue at too low a rate with the result that it would not be subscribed. The non-interest bearing certificates would simply be sold to the highest bidders and the rate of interest automatically fixed at the closest...
...appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
...college is going to be more important to him than his undergraduate attitude. And he would be wise to spend his time in doing things to develop the former rather than waste it in analyzing the latter. One has only to picture the fate of any poor man who set out to discover exactly why he came to college. If he were lucky he might escape with nothing worse than a complete nervous collapse, and it is certain that he would not succeed in satisfying himself, or his critics, or the requirements for his degree...