Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson, 60, a husky (212 lb.), balding man from Miami, gets up, pulls on his khaki working clothes, leaves his stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired as Bade County superintendent of schools in 1952, asked for a challenging assignment when he offered...
Dickey asserted that subsidized tuitions, particularly in public colleges, will damage the nation's educational system. Too much tax money will be spent unnecessarily on college subsidies, while vital elementary and secondary school systems become poorer...
...Asians heard that Ludwig Erhard was coming, many of them expected to see an open purse. Was not Economics Minister Erhard the engineer of the West German recovery "miracle"? Was not West Germany so prosperous, its coffers so filled, its technicians so talented that it could give help to poorer nations...
...must the resources of human ingenuity and the wrath of nations be turned more and more to the preparation of arms-pernicious instruments of death and destruction-instead of improving the welfare of all classes, particularly the poorer classes? We know, it is true, that to bring about so laudable, so praiseworthy a proposition and to level the differences there are grave and intricate difficulties in the way, but they must be victoriously overcome, even if by force: this is, in fact, the most important undertaking, connected with the prosperity of all mankind...
...seemed most likely that the answer lay in stress, or more precisely, the reaction to stress. Many of the Haitians were even poorer than their South Carolina counterparts, but if they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...