Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation conducted here by Dr. O. Myking Mehus of the social science department of the Missouri State Teachers college. His survey shows that the students who take part in the most campus activities tend to receive the highest grades while those who participate in no activity get the poorer grades...
...foreclosed. The com-pany never made money, despite the fact that its directorate was a roster of "big names." Last week what had been long expected occurred. A receiver was appointed for $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar. Although its earnings are down because of poorer fruit prices, fewer passengers and less freight on the "Great White Fleet," United Fruit still remains supreme in its field. Last week it was apparent that United Fruit has lost none of the aggressive spirit which has so firmly entrenched it in Central America. In Honduras the company was building a rail...
...will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses, he is working harder than ever. Automobile accessory business curtailed. Auto-Lite is making $1 electric clocks, selling them in large lots to chainstores. All the money "lost" in all failed banks in the U. S. in 1931 will...
...from playing on a semi-professional team if they themselves are doing so for pure recreation. If this regulation would be adhered to strictly and, if any man received money, would be disqualified immediately from further play at Harvard would face the situation honestly. It would make for poorer baseball teams since stars from secondary schools would go to colleges that openly permit their athletes to accept money for summer playing. But Harvard does not desire to be a haven for such athletes...
Among the plans approved by the Brooks House committee for trial is an extension of efforts now being made in the way of support of medical and dental clinics in poorer sections of Boston. It is thought that upperclassmen in the medical and dental schools might be of great assistance to regular practitioners who serve needy districts by doing survey work for the purpose of ascertaining just where immediate assistance is required. The increased need for medical assistance occasioned by desperate conditions can best be met in this way as the practicing physicians will be permitted to devote their entire...