Word: poorer
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Riches inFaith. Theologians laugh at Grave's notions, and archaeologists and anthropologists denounce his methods of research and his reasoning processes. Literary men stuff their fingers in their ears when Graves starts harping on his goddess. But nearly all would agree that the world would be demonstrably poorer in poetry if Robert Graves had lost faith in his goddess. Without her as Muse, he would never have written poems which rank with the greatest of the century...
...certainly not complete entities; the total impact is far from harmonious; and luminous passages are mixed in with opague and soggy passages." Wolfe himself at this period was "entirely dependent as a writer upon the quality of his memory, and the quality of the memories of manhood was infinitely poorer than those of childhood. There was far less perspective, and there was not the "space, color, and time" that the memories of his youth provided...
...Administration has one explanation for the present discrepancy between a room's price and its desirability. If freshmen got exactly what they paid for, the argument runs, all the wealthiest men would be living in such new dormitories as Wigglesworth, and all the poorer ones in buildings like Matthews and Hollis. In order to make each dormitory representative of the whole class, it is necessary to put some freshmen in less desirable rooms, even though they pay higher rents. This argument would be valid if its promise were true that is, if each dormitory did contain an economic cross section...
...they did it in accordance with their filter-down theory of prosperity, slashing the taxes of corporation stockholders, and allowing larger write-offs for industrial depreciation. Without upsetting the economy, Senate Democrats could justifiably attack these top-heavy benefits, and substitute for them tax relief measures that would help poorer taxpayers...
Since 1950-'51, when he entered the I.A.B. as Harvard's first full-time coach in a number of years, Pickett's teams have never turned in poorer than .500 records. With five wins, two ties, and a single defeat, that by two points, this years' team may be the best since the war. Still ahead are Springfield and Yale, both formidable obstacles, particularly the Bulldog. In 20 years of H-Y competition this tenacious club has never lost to the varsity...