Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfather were both governors of Connecticut; her father was Captain Robert Griswold of the London packet Ocean Queen. Boarders in her stately, elm-shaded house in the early 1900s included Chauncey Ryder, Henry W. Ranger, Childe Hassam, Clark Voorhees, other U. S. Impressionists. Last year when she became too poor to keep her house, former New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert McCurdy Marsh bought it, gave her a free lease for life...
...Willets with two goals and two assists respectively led the unimpressive Freshman team which demonstrated by its performance that it has a long way to go before it attempts next March to extend Hodder's long string of victories over Yale. Most apparent defects were slow skating, poor passing, and failure to play positions...
Where, by the way, did Mr. De Varon for his article, "And Now the Poor Farmer" discover "this strange and slithy credit system"? Our experts in Money and Banking have confessed themselves unfamiliar with this mechanism. Professor Haring's thesis would seem to be that the Vargas regime is not fascist but is simply an "old-fashioned South American dictatorship...
...Writing is a good stick to have by you, but a very poor crutch," he said. "It's all right to do some of it on the side, but when it becomes the only means of supporting oneself, it is not a very satisfying profession...
Since 1932 two presidents of the University of Oregon have resigned. Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, who took the job in 1926, quit six years later. Last June his successor, frail, scholarly Dr. Clarence Valentine Boyer, said his poor health would not allow him to continue as president...