Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I take exception to your March 8 feature, pp. 19 to 24, favoring "Albert Undone," poor George VI. This is the most uncharacteristic article TIME has carried, approaching fatuity in some of its uncritical assertions. I can not imagine my favorite editors becoming sycophantic, but if that write-up is not a press hand-out from His Majesty's Bureau of Canterbury Tales, then I am Bumbler Baldwin. Well do I realize that you must depend upon some source for the validity of human-interest reporting, but what proof has TIME that neurologically unstable George VI "today...
...Irving Fisher some ten years ago when a couple of bright young graduates outlined their plans for exploiting a patented automatic stop & go traffic signal. By last week these two bright young Yalemen had discovered that if they did have the world by the tail, that was a very poor place to catch it. In Federal District Court in Manhattan Wallace Graydon Garland, class of 1925, and Arnold Caverly Mason, class of 1928, were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud on 43 counts in a flamboyant security swindle...
...year old University Janitor is in the Cambridge Municipal Hospital and his condition was declared "poor", yesterday, with Hospital authorities implying that because of his age he will not recover. Badly burned from the hips down and with minor burns about his chest and hands, Perkins, who has been working for the college since 1917, has been conscious all the time with considerable pain...
...fellow. Some thought he would never walk again, but his determination to overcome this handicap has not only enabled him to walk but to become the king of American milers. His legs, though, are full of new tissue and new blood vessels, and consequently his blood circulation is very poor...
...save himself and his son from starvation, a poor man leases his wife for three years to a childless rich man. She fulfills the contract, bears the rich man a son, then returns to her poverty, her heart torn between her two children...