Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This condition is particularly prevalent in winter, the heyday of the warm fire and the good book. Then although major sports are least active the minors in general are the poorest in material. Athletics may be valuable, athletics may be almost necessary, but they hold little interest in January...
...United States is accused of being a nation of dollar-worshippers. Europeans say we are money-mad. We are accused of measuring success in terms of dollars and cents. "That," Mr. Foss emphatically declared, is poorest measure of success. Success is measured in Service--in what you do for the other fellow. That is the greatest thing possible. In old age it is a wonderful thing to be able to look back on a life of service." He spoke of Russell Sage, who spent all his life making money, and, when he became old and realized the end was near...
...somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might with justice quote himself, with a slight change of wording: "How many thousand of my poorest readers are at this hour asleep...
...wastefulness of our present system arises from the fact that we use the same method with all students irrespective of difference in ability," said Professor Neilson. "There is a far greater difference between the brightest and the poorest minds in a class than most people suppose. The teacher has to aim at the middle or even a little below the middle intelligence. In an average class of 75 men, the brightest scholars will do in thirty minutes, a lesson upon which the slowest students will labor for there hours. That is a ratio of one to six. The instructor must...
...Reminiscences of Tolstoy", an account of his father's life, which describes the work he and his father did to aid the cause of Russian democracy. Among other things, he describes the part both of them took in a three-days census of Moscow, in which they canvassed the poorest quarter of the city. The mass of poverty and degradation which they found there excited horror and disgust, and made is deep impression on young Tolstoy...