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Word: poorer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is terse; it might do poorer, But it harbors a certain addiction: Quotations that swear and letters in poetry, Are items it uses without restraint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Push & Scamper | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...that radio reception is universally poor in summer and good in winter. Generally speaking, reception should be better in the winter months on account of the shortened days and decreased daylight. On the other hand, the sunspots and radio curves show that the increased solar activity actually gave much poorer reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMER EXPLAINS RADIO EVIL | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...work of the world must in the future be figured out on a basis of the cash value to those who do it. But where in all of the activities open to Harvard students can one find an activity having more cash value than working with the boys of poorer districts of Boston? Four years after entering College most men have to secure a job, usually in a business organization. One of the first questions a man is asked is what experience in life he has had. The four years of college are eliminated immediately. It is just such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity's Returns | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

...justice to some of the poorer diplomats in Paris, the State Sevres Bureau indicated that they have "double exchanged" principally when driven to do so by the necessity of giving a sumptuous and costly wedding (or other) present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shrewd | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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