Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came that part of the ceremony where the principals customarily repeat what the cleric dictates. Said James (with no word from the cleric): "I James take thee Sophie to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight my troth." Cried Sophie (with no word from the cleric): "I Sophie take thee James, etc., etc." The onlookers were agreeably shocked...
...bringing his parents to school or putting on the boxing gloves and fighting a boy his own weight. We have been using the plan for more than 15 years and it has had an amazing effect on discipline. Until five years ago it was the practice of the poorer boys to band together and actually waylay the children of wealthy parents and steal their lunches, fruit and money. The last time one of our boys was beaten and robbed ... I rounded up the ruffians and made them put on the eight-ounce gloves with boys of their own weight. That...
...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...
...speculate in cotton. At once a blizzard of cotton-selling began. In one day's trading, cotton prices dropped off $5.50 to $6 per bale. With 20 million bales the prospective total of their current crop, U. S. cotton growers found themselves some $90,000,000 poorer overnight. Speculators on the "long" side of a previously rising market found themselves sore stranded...
Some 600 foreign students, poorer than Americans, come to the U. S. each year on similar scholarships; more to study business and agriculture than for arts and letters...