Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither these rebuttals to Sanctions nor Sanctions themselves were last week of more than moral interest. Italy is basically so poor in natural resources and in cash that never in modern times has she been able to make more than a roulette player's cast on the world's battlefields for the supreme prize of Power. The classic roulette odds of 36 to 1 approximately represented Italy's chance to conquer and to hold against other players, all of Ethiopia, even before sanctions were declared. But it is possible to win heavily at roulette...
...when he was most unruly and so poor that he had to economize on food. Beethoven still had the detachment to sit down and write the last great quartets. He died shaking his fist at a storm which was beating against his window. But Herriot. the preacher of peace, does not end his book there. He takes for a final text the choral ending to the Ninth Symphony, pleads, as did Beethoven, for a brotherhood...
...proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though he failed to destroy the German Fleet because of poor communications and his unpreparedness for a night battle...
...temperature and precipitation predictions for 30 U. S. cities for 1934, 1935, 1936, stowed them away in a stout safe. With the danger of misleading anyone on the 1934 forecasts well past, Cyclist Abbot revealed how they turned out: excellent, 27%; good 42%; right about half the time, 17%; poor...
...walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...