Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the most startling aspects of the book is the author's treatment of Mussolini and Hitler. The absolute authority of Il Duce in Italy is emphatically denied. The power of the royalist elements, the Vatican, and the army under Badoglio are so strongly emphasized that poor Benito appears to be merely a rather weak prime minister. Here, it seems, Mr. Young has jumped overboard trying to prove his case. As for Hitler, it is claimed that he was deified by the German people when Hindenburg was no longer adequate as a god. Unity in the Reich is a myth...
...present outlook is very poor." With this gloomy statement. President Walter P. Paepcke of Container Corp. last week announced his company's omission of the usual quarterly dividend. Container's first quarter net had plopped from a 1937 profit of $626,970 to a 1938 loss of $53,198. With a few exceptions the same sort of thing was being experienced last week by almost every other U. S. industry. Samples...
Last year's Crimson League Champions have up to the present a poor season, losing to New Hampshire, Dartmouth and Springfield with only one victory. The Freshman team has lost every match this season...
...Harvard gives voluntary tests to its first year men. After additional experience, the school plans to test the correlation between aptitude and later results. The result of trying to forecast law school results on the basis of college records tabulated for over ten years seems to be that "a poor performance in college is an indication of a lessened chance of success in law school." Yet one cannot interpret the data to mean that a person who gets A's in college will necessarily do well in law school. The figures can only be used as an indication of lessened...
...fulfill its needs. They have consistently opposed the development of systems of medical care which threaten to minimize the importance of the old doctor-patient relationship, but which would provide better care for a greater number. The comparatively high standards of health in our cities, with people working under poor industrial conditions, is evidence that institutionalized medicine is the best method of caring for them. Legislation which would provide funds for the continuance of a system that functions on the whole successfully is essentially conservative...