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Word: poorer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Occupational Stigmas | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...sports had their answer Saturday, and at came from some of the loudest of the clamorers, the athletes themselves. While Deerfield Academy was trouncing the home team on Soldiers Field to the one of 26 to 2, the Crimson was putting on an exhibition of poor playing and even poorer sportsmanship...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: VISITQRS TAKE LACROSSE TILT | 5/29/1945 | See Source »

...poorer Randy Phillips who spurred his subway car ever onward Saturday last. The "Dolph", once of Hollywood, has made a standing date at one of Beantown's favorite nightspots--the Touraine Bar. How naive must have been the faces of Bill "The Bradford" Shirey, Don "Raymore Playmore" Royce and Rod "Scollay Square" Rolain as this threesome was asked to desert their regular haunts for a well-spent Saturday in Wellesley...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/1/1945 | See Source »

...restaurants (a quantity market), and so into small retail markets. But OPA set no ceiling. Item: the Western cattlemen loudly prophesied that the results of a ceiling on their cattle prices would be less beef for all, housewives included, and furthermore that the beef would be of a poorer quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD,FINANCE,OPINION,METALS: A Bull Market | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop and the Quisling | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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