Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the doctors at Coronado feared that this proposal would become law. They foresaw more financial troubles for private hospitals and for themselves, poorer medical service by & large for the State's inhabitants. But they could agree on no procedure to avert the blow...
...concentrators' opinion that the department is the poorer for a lack of a group of outstanding elder men is important, but not sufficient cause for real concern. First, however regrettable such a lack, it is a fact, which could only be corrected by the importation of a number of men from the outside--a solution impractical for financial reasons. Second, the paucity of elder men of recognized stature is considerably compensated for by the further finding of the students that the department is fortunate in its number of younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both...
...surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world's illicit professionals drain...
...shipping, American Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...
...royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly left poorer than he had ever been...