Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last years of the nineteenth century, Harvard students were the blood let victims of Cambridge merchants. These gentlemen, because of the poor transportation facilities, had a virtual monopoly over the student' purchasing power. And thus Charles H. Kip '83 was moved to organize the Harvard Cooperative Society. Mr. Kip's main purpose in founding the Society was to make living cheaper for the students, what at that time were unduly burdened with the exorbitant prices charged by local establishments...
...bustling yet other-worldly order are the Roman Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor. Familiar sights in many a U. S. city are the sisters, with their black habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges, the Little Sisters patiently make a nuisance of themselves by begging their way through shops, offices, the streets. They have been at it for 100 years, since their founder, Jeanne Jugan, joined with three friends to beg bread for some aged pensioners in the Breton village of St. Servan...
Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth, spinal curvature, sacroiliac trouble, bad tonsils and audible adenoids, you would undoubtedly find this afflicted race much more stupid at maze running than normal, healthy rats. You would conclude that rats with the best biological endowment are the most intelligent rats, and that your afflicted, stupid rat race was headed...
...Rutherford tried cobra venom injections on 17 women, most of them victims of incurable cancer. Of the 17, eight felt completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...
...bill at the University is routine stuff, the kind that any movie-goer has seen time and time again. A new idea has been stuck in here and there to cover over the thread-worn patterns, but it's a poor job of camouflaging two pictures that are nothing more than a waste of time...