Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dark Ages. Said Schweitzer: "Man has become a superman . . . because he not only disposes of innate physical forces, but because he is in command, thanks to the conquests of science and technique, of latent forces in nature . . . The superman, in the measure that his power increases, becomes himself poorer and poorer. In order to avoid [atomic] destruction, he is obliged to hide himself underground like the beasts of the fields . . . [Lacking] superhuman reason . . . the more we become supermen, the more we become inhuman." Later, Schweitzer mentioned his plan to put all of his prize money ($33,149) into his hospital...
...proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power, but an honest one. Free of the need to keep up a front. Frenchmen will be relieved of the nagging of creditors, the sneers of critics, the exhortation of friends. Henceforth, they might seem poorer-but feel prouder. Did this mean that Mendès is longing for the illusory place on the sidelines labeled "neutralism"? Mendès denies it. "Let us have no illusions. No imaginable policy could enable us to escape if, unhappily, a new war were to break out... National defense is imperative...
...times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however, that actually measured Amintore Fanfani's new power. Seventeen out of 18 new regional members of the National Party Council...
...Republican town, and, therefore, there was no Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. At least that was the explanation Democrats gave themselves last week as they sat down to the 1954 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner-in Washington. In the Mayflower Hotel, ballroom, 1,450 Democrats, each of them $100 the poorer for the privilege, agreed that Republicans know nothing about running a government...
...Lowell House sophomore has devised a method to save fellow Bellboys from the crushing Lamont Library fine system. By placing their books in a wooden box the night before, Lowell men can wake up at 11 a.m. and find themselves only 10 to 25 cents poorer. Without the service, late risers might incur losses as high as two dollars per book...