Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary reason for the poor teaching, except in the elementary language courses, is that the younger men are too burdened with their own compulsory research--compulsory, because research and its consequent scholastic output are almost the sole bases of promotion today at Harvard. The teaching ability that a man shows, or his work with tutees, is almost completely overlooked when the day for the renewal of his three year appointment rolls around...
...until last year it was customary to hold elections for the position. Beginning last year the change was made to a competitive system of choosing in order to avoid poor addresses...
Died. Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, 72, famed longtime British Laborite; of a heart attack; in Tilford, Surrey, England. Son of a poor Yorkshire weaver, he passed the civil service examinations at 22 and was sent as a customs official to the Orkney Islands, where a bicycle accident crippled him for life. He went into politics and became first Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924, 1929-31). His hard-headed insistence on rigid economy brought the British Government through the early part of the Depression. Philip Snowden was branded a "traitor" to the working class when he and Ramsay...
...year, plus $156 a month if the chaplain has a family. Most chaplains are married, but not a few join the service to get away from church suppers and sewing clubs. Others like to wear a uniform, relish the security of a chaplaincy as compared with a poor parish, or are eager-especially since the founding of the CCC-to do God's work among men who are comparatively insulated from the badness of the world...
...proverb, and he'll soon be hanged. Hang a man for piracy and he'll be known as a bloody pirate to all posterity. Captain Kidd, who ended his career in a gibbet on Execution Dock, has become the legendary archetype of brutal buccaneer. Says Biographer Wilkins: poor Captain Kidd was a much-maligned man. In a 411-page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide circle: after attempting to show that Captain Kidd...