Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poor students. Regrettably, their inadequacies are magnified. Consistent with the theory that Sarah Lawrence teaches the students, instructors often find they must simplify courses because some students are not prepared for the material. On the other hand, some classes can move as fast as the teachers, and the poorer students may have to drop an intensified course. And so, while the college's instructors are sometimes disappointed with an enforced snail's pace, they are often pleasantly surprised...
...must continue to be patient and keep hanging on to this thing, and I think it will pay off in the end. But if we get impatient, we are going to suffer for it. By that I mean we will get either poorer armistice terms, or no armistice at all. The period now is very critical. We must hang on, keep at it, and try to get this thing through...
...Times Magazine. This policy might be laudatory if the professors with literary reputations were all good teachers, but in many instances the reverse is true. Term after term I took courses in the College under Big Men whose actual teaching ability in terms of clarity and intellectual stimulation was poorer than many of my instructors in secondary school. (name withheld by request...
...Maybe when the Brazilians south of Rio have made their million dollars in sufficiency they will look to the needs of their very much poorer countrymen who live in those filthy shacks so scientifically camouflaged by the magnificent buildings in and around Copacabana . . . From what I could see, Brazil, north of Rio, is as appalling as India, but maybe it doesn't smell quite...
...critical study, Author Ellsworth Barnard scans the poet's lines closely, deliberately scants the poet's life. His book is the poorer for it, for in Robinson's case one of the clues to what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...