Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pays us poor beggars...
...Poor But Honest; The Cambridge Ellis Island...
Sister Annunziata, a d'Orobelli without beauty or dot, had long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...
Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...
...every U. S. factory would have shown the ills that Dennison did. Few of the executives had organic diseases. Most were "healthy." But there were all too many cases of functional disturbances caused by mental strain, worry, improper living, neglect of personal hygiene. Some men had decayed teeth, others poor eyesight, improper glasses; some were under weight, others over weight. Men bright enough to have become Dennison executives were not smart enough to eat properly, sleep enough, avoid constipation, take exercise. President Dennison's example and the medical examiner's urgency made the executives start to remedy their...