Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When these details were known German editorial writers passionately cast the entire blame upon the Allies & The Dawes Plan. Had not the Fatherland been unjustly oppressed, they said, poor Heinrich Langkopf would long ago have received adequate compensation, would not have been driven to the last extremity...
Thus by insistence upon the letter of the law, in obedience to Minister of Justice Barthou, the Versailles court made a glaring example of the case of a U. S. citizen of first prominence. In Manhattan his wife, the onetime Miss Nathalie Sedgwick remarked, "Poor Bainbridge! He never seems to get what he wants!" In more decorous mood, Mrs. Colby has said that Mr. Colby is "far too colossal a figure" to have been encompassed by any of her novels...
Last week the New York Times printed the following dramatic despatch from Washington, Pa.: "Totally blind since she was less than a year old, 13-year-old Mary Grabowsky, second daughter of Walter Grabowsky, a poor miner of Coal Center, this county, walked out of the Washington Hospital today, scarcely able to conceal her delight and asking officers of the Red Cross to hurry her home that she might see her mother for the first time...
...Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, who roundly flayed U. S. public schools for their excessive cost, their waste of youth's time, their superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop...
...mind, the CRIMSON has delved deep until now the "cause causinge," the taproot of the evil lies exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students of poor physique must needs forego the privilege of morning worship by reason of cramps and chills of a serious nature, derived therefrom...