Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to demand free lunches for Italian school children at the expense of the State. Last week by Fascist decree school lunches were made compulsory throughout Italy, but not at the expense of the State. Rich moppets will be charged enough to pay for their lunches and those of poor moppets as well. Rich or poor, every Italian school child will be required, before eating school lunch, to say this grace...
...Cabinet's instructions, the Rumanian National Theatre this week began preparing "a series of revivals of old Rumanian classics, not produced for many years." First to be scheduled is Bloodsucker of the Villages, a Rumanian favorite of half a century ago, all about a heartless Jewish swindler of poor peasants...
WINTER SPORTS CONDITIONS (Yesterday's Boston and Maine R. R. reports.) Snowshoeing Skiing Temp. 8 A.M. Snow Inches Bartlett, N.H. Fair Poor 5 14 Brattlebore, Vt. None None 20 2 Cannan, N.H. Poor Poor 10 4 Conway, N.H. Fair Poor 7 13 Franconia, N.H. Good Fair 6 10 Fryeburg, Me. Poor Poor 14 6 Goffstown, N.H. None None 20 4 Gorham, N.H. Poor Poor 10 5 Greenfield, Mass. None Poor 20 2 Hanover, N.H. Poor Poor 16 6 Intervale, N.H. Fair Poor 8 13 Jackson, N.H. Fair Poor 8 14 Laconia, N.H. Poor Poor 12 6 Lancaster, N.H. None None...
...brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters. When at last the shipowner...
...vocational consultant today is best qualified to listen and to give information; he can hardly afford to give much advice or make any decisions for his clients. However, the old adage that two heads are better than one still holds, and the best proof against poor judgment from biased advice is to seek information from as many places as possible...