Word: poore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with cash, scholarships, pensions, homes for poor people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
...respect was the session, held in Cleveland a few days before the meeting of the Federal Council, of the National Church Comity Council. Finding few points of dissension, the 500 delegates from 30 denominations agreed upon a definition of competitive denominationalism in small communities, a competition which leads to poor sermons, impoverished churches, shabby rivalries between small congregations. They agreed that communities of 1,000 persons, if provided with more than one Protestant edifice, were "overchurched." Per contra, every 1,000 persons should support one Protestant edi- fice, one resident pastor, one Sunday School, a regular weekly service...
...beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find in his reading something that may always give pleasure. Were he to spend time for these things his students would probably fail in the examinations, and in consequence he would be a poor tutor in the light of present Harvard requirements...
Today at 8.30 o'clock. H. W. Poor will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Scenic America". His talk will deal primarily with the National Parks, Grand Canyon, and the Indian Detour. The lecture is made possible through the courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway System...
...caste system stood the Brahmins, followed by the princes, and then the various leyels of workers. But today with the stress upon the economic side of life, it is the millionaire and all rich men who form the highest caste, while below this group, trail the poor...