Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...
...although the new tax bill boosts income taxes to new heights to reach its $6 billion total, inflation cannot be prevented by making the "new poor" poorer. It can be prevented only by keeping the "new rich" from spending their new income...
...wartime U.S. the poor were growing richer, the rich poorer. War-factory payrolls had brought back World War I's silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...
...squad, which at present seems to be poorer than last year's, and is especially weak in the doubles, may round into shape before the match with the powerful Yale team on the sixteenth, according to Dick Dorson. Brailey, Cameron, beside Tufts and Zinsser, seem to be definitely the best bet in the doubles at the moment...
...modern "inventor" is likely to be a big corporation. Big corporations have not only the best laboratories, but the most money and the most staying power in infringement suits. These suits can be so costly and long-drawn-out that the poorer contender can be bought or frozen out, however valid his claims...