Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history, blood and religion. Impulsive Syrians, who voted almost unanimously for Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first President of the new republic, thought of him as an Arab and only incidentally as an Egyptian. But after five months, Syria (pop. 4,000,000) has become a province of poorer Egypt (pop. 24 million)-and not everyone is happy about...
...death because the troops suspected he planned to use them to found a city instead of taking them home. The glorious march up country ends on this pitiful note of bickering and betrayal. Scarcely half the Greeks who had started to overthrow Persia survived, and they were all much poorer than when they began. Only the world was richer by Xenophon's Anabasis...
Facilities are poorer in the South because of the lack of money, but the difference is rapidly disappearing. One reason for difficulty in having adequate educational facilities is the fact that present Southern law requires separate school systems for white and Negro students. A country of 3,000 residents will theoretically need equal, and rigidly separate facilities. Thus where one building would suffice, two are constructed. Further evidence shows that some Negro schools are nothing more than hovels. Of course, there are some white hovels also, but this fact is hardly justification for the poor Negro school...
...contrasts do not exist merely between public and private schools. American high schools range all the way from Scarsdale High and Newton High (above right) which have many advanced courses of the college freshman type for able students, to the poorer high schools which spend a disproportionate amount of time in driver training, cooking, shop, home-making, and other such pursuits, to the very worst institutions in the country such as the school shown above (left...
...baseball were losing our audience and weren't doing a damn thing about it. Why should you leave your nice, comfortable, air-conditioned home to go out and sweat in a drafty, dirty, dingy baseball park? Ballparks are almost all old. They are built in the poorer sections of the city. The toilets at most ballparks are a germ hazard that would turn a bacteriologist grey. Why, when I came to the Dodgers, I spent a quarter of a million dollars just to change the urinals, and Branch Rickey, who was the general manager, nearly had a stroke...