Word: poore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. is now spending some $50,000,000 a year buying surpluses and giving them to the poor, which pleases the poor and the farmers but worries the food distributing industry. Last fall Secretary of Agriculture Wallace proposed a bolder "two-price plan" under which surplus goods would be sold at one price to most buyers, at a lower price to the needy. Business reacted so unfavorably that the plan was hastily abandoned. Last week came news of something new under the agricultural sun: a new plan to make farmers, Business and the poor equally happy...
After the heavy snowfall yesterday skiing conditions have improve in most regions from poor to good. Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Intervale, all in New Hampshire, offer the best skiing in that order...
...these rallies, called recently in New York, Dean Gauss of Princeton admitted that the Society had, it was true, taken rather poor care of civilization, but announced that he, personally, was fully ready to start work in earnest, and hoped others would follow. "Science, humanity have already suffered too much through suppression of freedom of inquiry to make any policy of appeasement possible. . . . On that issue we hereby declare war," he said. But although Phi Beta Kappa men thrilled to the campaign title, "To the Defense," they found it hard to know just where to start in on the business...
...Most prone to commit crimes are frustrated groups such as undersized people, soldiers, divorcees, poor people...
...small that only two men can swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...