Word: poore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thing, this Harvard indifference is being worked to death. The team left Cambridge with no demonstration.... There were two graduates waiting for it when it arirved in New York. Rather a poor way to support even a losing team. The Harvard undergraduate body shows that it hasn't much spirit, and the editors of the Crimson show they have none." As nice a lift of straight forward reasoning as ever clinched a point for an expert on college spirit...
...little fellow will learn. Give him time. Even Yale men haven't learned it thoroughly yet, judging from the quoted odds in our daily journals. My message of warning to my Yale friends today is that no Yale team has ever good enough and no Harvard team ever poor enough to make the Eils a legitimate favorite...
Modelled, even as top typography and woodcuts, on the once popular Poor Richard's Year Book, this volume contains as much information as its prototypes. It is, besides, brought right up to date, so that the information contained between the covers represents, as far as possible, a collection in permanent form of all standard subjects for tea and dinner table small talk provided by such magazines as Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, with even a touch of the Hound and Horn...
Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...
...Everest were cleared away by the personal friendship between Sir Charles Bell and the Dalai Lama of Lhasa. In 1922 the first expedition made an in-road on the desired region, mapping the surroundings, gained knowledge of the weather and choosing a route up the peak. A few poor attempts were made on the mountain itself, but these were abruptly ended by the death of several porters in an avalanche...