Word: poore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article explaining the excessive rate of failure of the male students of the University of Karachi, Pakistan as resulting from their being distracted by women students [Oct. 26] is a grotesque oversimplification of a serious problem. There are several reasons for the poor performance of the university students of Pakistan: 1) the British educational tradition, with its emphasis on cramming for a single major examination, 2) inadequate faculties, 3) language difficulties, 4) an obsessive concern with politics on the part of the students. When I was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Karachi, I would plead with my students...
Stuart Symington's will to victory traces back to a special kind of poverty that he endured in childhood-not the numbing poverty of the slum poor but the stinging poverty of the semi-broke genteel. At the time of Stu's birth, his father was a teacher of Romance languages at Massachusetts' Amherst College. But he soon quit as a result of a quarrel with the college president, moved his family to New York, where he studied law at night, scraping a living by translating documents for export-import firms. A few years later, the family...
...spring of 1903, demand had been growing for a new stadium. Sensitive souls were offended by what they called "a forest of columns supporting a rambling and irregular structure," and felt, with the increase of traffic in the Soldiers Field area, that the former grandstands were a poor advertisement for the University...
Apathy, the Council's "poor reputation from previous years," and "fear of too much work" were cited by Council officials as possible reasons for the small number of petitions turned in. Although the Council's past election records are nuclear, one member admitted that this may be "one of our worst showing in recent years...
...seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose interest. Jacques cannot be really interested, because the money she thinks her greatest charm squashes his masculine...