Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kindly pardon my poor English...
...Philadelphia is not finicky about having a Congressman really live in the district he represents. In 1927 the late James M. Beck, who lived in Washington and summered in New Jersey, was given a House nomination by the Vare machine, promptly rented a sleazy apartment in a poor district of Philadelphia which he never actually occupied. Following his election, his right to a House seat was challenged on the Constitutional ground that he did not live in Pennsylvania. A cocky Republican majority in the House overrode the evidence against him, seated him regardless...
...puberty was found by Dr. Boas to be more a matter of environment than of "race." Contrary to popular belief, climate has little to do with it. In New York City the onset of puberty occurs at practically the same age among Negroes and whites of various descent. Poor Negroes, however, mature later than those economically better off. Southern and West Indian blacks mature later than those farther north. Among European whites, rustics reach puberty later than city-dwellers...
...Brigham Hospital. From his diaries he carefully culled enough memories to make a popular volume which he called From a Surgeon's Journal and published last week.- However useful historians may eventually find Dr. Cushing's complete diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman and doctor. That is Dr. Cushing's record of how polyneuritis ambulatoria crept upon him and crippled him be fore he, a nerve...
...poor on my pins to go to Vichy as planned...