Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That inimitable lunk, Mayor John P. O'Brien, who combines the effrontery of a lamp-post with the insouciance of a glassy-eyed codfish will leave New York the poorer for his passing, not only in the crassly material sense, but spiritually as well. For Honest John has in his own good way lightened the gloom of the morbidly shaded metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains...
Northern Baptists, 20% to 25% poorer than last year, are launching a "Live It Through" program, also to culminate...
...over-applications for the lower priced rooms, and under-applications for those in the higher brackets; Freshmen, quite naturally, have been unwilling to pay any more than they are forced to, and as a result many who could afford a high-priced room have gained cheaper ones, thereby forcing poorer men out of the Houses...
...temporary solution; it is, however, a problem for the University to solve. The demand for this solution is a fair one if the students are in turn asked to give as much as they can afford to the rents of rooms, to make in turn space for the poorer...
...wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought him to Hollywood's attention but an infinite skill with certain kinds of characterization are what should prevent the attention from wavering. A poorer picture than Sweepings would be justified by Ratoffs rebuke to a department store Santa Claus whom he catches removing his beard: "Vat are you-Senta Claus or a bum we picked up for two-fifty...