Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community grocery stores during the winter months when gardens are impos- sible, paying doctor bills for the sick, burying the dead, as well as bailing [offenders] out of ail when necessary. These are a few items hat the social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest...
...Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties to which he belonged, Gladstone's and Balfour's, and each time emerged greater than before. His platform was social reform for poor Englishmen, confederation and preferential tariffs for the Empire and, internationally, an understanding between Britain, the U. S. and Germany. Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their heritage...
...Security must be nothing more than a pure implement for peace, and its operation ought not normally to contain any danger of war. That means that, if it is to be complete, Collective Security must be combined with General Disarmament." Chances for obtaining that, admitted M. Blum, are so poor as to seem "almost ridiculous...
...increased supply of oxygen. The depth and rate of respiration are accelerated. Continued exercise in the pool makes for depth and fine breathing adjustments. Assimilation and elimination are taking place faster than usual. Weakness of abdominal and trunk muscles of students is due to a great extent to habitually poor sitting positions...
...colliery may end the only payroll in a coal town. One by one the collieries have been closed because the U. S. now burns less than two-thirds the anthracite it used ten years ago. For this there are many reasons, including strikes, high prices and poor merchandising, which have conspired to advance the competitive position of fuels like oils, gas, coke. In 1924 total anthracite sales were 80,300,000 tons. Last year they were roughly 52,000,000 tons...