Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Rojas ranch cost him nothing at all when the deal was completed. He bought a large estate at Gamarra for 500,000 pesos, then turned right around and sold half of it-the poorer half. Price: 500,000 pesos. Buyer: an agency of the Rojas government...
...told that surgery makes the President fit for another four years in office, in fact, "he is better than ever." Before his illness, we were is told that he was "as good as ever." If he is improved now, he must have improved from some former condition of poorer health. If he was in "excellent health" before, he cannot have "improved" now, unless there is an adjective better than "excellent." I believe the American voters would be interested in an evaluation of the President's health from physicians who vote Democratic as well as from those who vote Republican...
...speaker of the house, who never before had campaigned outside his home city of Auburn (pop. 24,500). An inveterate pipe smoker with a penchant for bow ties, Lawyer Trafton has much of the same boyish appeal that has worked so well for Ed Muskie, but is rated a poorer speaker. To beat Muskie in the celebrated "as Maine goes" Sept. 10 elections, he has his work cut out for him. Reason: the G.O.P. turnout for the primary that nominated Trafton was the lightest in ten years...
West Germans are enjoying a remarkable prosperity that would be weakened by unifying with their poorer brothers in Communist East Germany. This is one reason why West German politicians (who would as soon denounce motherhood as reunification) privately concede that the reunification issue is not as real as the noise it makes...
...twenty-odd members of the Debate Council would not readily admit to such guilt. Clearly, a judge's decision can, and often does, go to the side that makes the better use of the poorer argument. To this extent, most College debators will laugh at themselves and the system that enables them to make black seem white. They are frank enough, too, to admit that they spend many seemingly useless hours debating for the same reasons condemned...