Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
...Mummy, it isn't that! Poor darling, were you afraid I was going to spring a little bastard...
...this problem since 1921 and believes that it has discovered a means of detecting in advance men who are incapable of complying with required standards. Experiment by means of a "capacity test" has consistently revealed that over ninety percent of the men who scored below a certain grade did poor work in law school. Consequently it is felt that the "capacity test" is a reliable means of presaging a man's capability for law school work and-it will go into effect at Columbia next fall...
...which amused the crowd, as: "I have read Judge Lindsey's book three times and I don't know yet just what this companionate marriage is. It sounds like trial marriage to me. No one knows better than I that all marriages are trials. . . . You know, our poor benighted parents didn't believe in this birth control. If they had, we wouldn't be here tonight debating whether or not we should believe...
...Pity the poor bootlegger, whose life is harried by occasional federal drives and less frequent local campaigns. Pity him when home, brew gains adherents, in spite of Mr. Volstead; but most of all, consider his lot when the very mouth he supplies turns to whisper against him. Of all those among whom he plies his nefarious trade, rumor has it that the student is most addicted to his wares; that the student should bite the hand that feeds him, or more strictly, act against the man that gives him to drink, is incredible...