Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Mitchell's optimism over the showing made by the squad is well warranted by the average of well over 30 men who reported each day. The practice games were made very close by the custom of giving the better pitcher to the poorer team. Most of the players came with experience on either last year's second nine or the 1927 outfit, but several new players of some little promise were discovered...
...claim of La Follette that the decisions of the Supreme Court are dictated by narrow class interest to the prejudice of the poorer economic groups is effectively confuted by Monday's decision on the constitutionality of the sections of the Clayton Act dealing with the trial of strikers held for contempt of court in violating injunctions...
...strange to think that the "revolution" was in the main caused because President Alessandri championed a bill to provide salaries for Parliamentarians, on the ground that it would enable the poorer classes to enter the Legislature...
When the sun had kissed the grand old Hradsany good night, Harry had not returned for similar caresses from his anxious wife. The dawn of another morning confirmed the fears of dozens of business men: Harry had fled. Mrs. Gray, ruminating upon her pillow, remembered that she was poorer. Investigation showed that she was bankrupt...
...principles of equal opportunity for all, special privileges to none, life has become a desperate struggle for the average man and woman. The millions who work on the farms, in the mines, in transportation, in the factories and shops and stores, with all their industry and saving, find themselves poorer at the end of the year than at the beginning...