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Word: poore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot afford to waste an hour with a group of girls who apparently know nothing about Shakspere. The bang of the door upon his angry retreat is an effective spanking administered to our abysmal ignorance. After a minute or two we laugh, because we realize that class attendance is poor that morning, and that "Kitty" doesn't want to bother with a lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...eminent Japanese remarked, "Our elections have been purged of much bribery and corruption and of all political importance." This overstatement did not take account of the fact that Japan's dominant militarists are by & large against the Rich, whom they consider chicken-hearted profiteers, and for the Poor, in whom they fancy reside sterling Japanese virtues. If that be radicalism, then the militarists, although they are the world's most violent reactionaries in matters of Japanese Emperor-worship and imperial conquest, are radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Digressions from Election | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...history; consequently she is forced to use the facilities of both the museum and library for her research. The problem arises when fatally beautiful Gertrude falls in love with Reggie Burlingame, young fine arts instructor and playboy, while at the same time she has become the despair of poor but honest Gregory P. Grupp, assistant at the delivery desk in the library. With telling power the author depicts the struggle that tears the heart of the girl when Leap Year arrives and she knows she must ask one or the other for good and all. With intense symbolism he reduces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding my cane and gloves of late. That was, however, all right. I could manage to steer clear of her on the twenty-ninth by taking Alice to the movies. But now Alice has started...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...just a joke between me and Sullivan, but he made a mountain out of a mole hill and let it get into the papers. Now I've got to get him a horse somewhere. I have a couple of plugs up at the poor farm that sin't doing much, so I guess I'll let him have one of them. The trouble is, though, that I think more of the horse than I do of Sullivan, and I don't want to send it out in the cold to catch pneumonia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bossy Gillis, Newburyport Mayor, Thinks Oath Bill Will End Socialism of Harvard Teachers | 2/26/1936 | See Source »

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