Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office, and by making necessary readjustments of sections as the year progressed. The chief objections to sectioning according to ability are that the removal of the best students from a section makes the discussion dull and uninteresting and that it is difficult to interest capable teachers in instructing the poorer sections...
...general merchant. One of the directors is B. E. South, retired carpenter. Another is C. C. Davis who owns the motion picture house. Greensboro is a farming community but has been helped by coal developments. Last week when the bank did not open, Greensboro felt $368,000 poorer...
Obviously, in a close election, as this was, a man receiving a large number of fifth choices would poll a poorer vote than if each fifth vote received as much consideration as a first choice. It is also plain that a candidate receiving numerous second and third votes would be elected rather than a nominee polling a few first and a numerous number of last choices. When the Senior Class is under the apprehension that it is balloting under the preferential system, it may use, if it wishes, the first choice for candidates whom it believes to be weak, with...
Social, service among the poorer districts and boys' clubs, cast off clothing drives and loan libraries, and the Freshman handbook comprise some of the better known functions of Brooks House. Somewhat less recognized by the University at large are the facilities offered for the meeting of foreign students and the furtherance of various schemes for international good will. There is a definite benefit to be gained from such cosmopolitan gatherings in the stimulating exchange of diverse ideas and the contact with the widely varying traits of character and view points of the different nations. The provision made by the International...
...Broadway musical show four years ago even such talented entertainers as Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan can hardly make a fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...