Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University hockey team won the first game of its season by defeating the Boston Hockey Club, 4 to 3, in the Boston Arena Saturday night. Although the team-play of the University forwards was poor, it showed improvement, especially in the second half, over practice work. The Boston Hockey Club, on the other hand, seemed to lose all idea of team-work and depended mainly on the individual brilliancy of Clifford, Hicks and Winsor, who were prevented from scoring more frequently only by the excellent work of Chadwick at goal, and Huntington at coverpoint...
...University team has been practicing in the Arena for two weeks and has shown constant improvement. The team work is still rather poor, as the line-up has been unsettled...
...more poverty to increase their own wealth. While this industrial system has killed many victims, it has been at the same time bringing many immigrants out of direst poverty to relative prosperity, for the majority of immigrants improve their condition when they come to this country, no matter how poor they may seem to be here...
...decision of the Court of Appeals of New York made in 1886 it is beyond the power of the legislature to protect the home of the poor, by being unable to prevent the introduction of the sweat-shop' into their homes. Whenever it is possible the employer gets his work done in the houses of the poor, because in this way he has not the expense of lighting, heating, and cleaning of a factory to meet...
...referred to as of Irish origin. If so, it certainly throve well on American soil. It pointed also to the wide vision of real culture and to experience with men and books, thus showing itself to be cosmopolitan or universal, rather than racial. Certainly old and young, rich and poor, foreigner and native, appreciated its great charm and penetration. Sometimes a mere trifle would call out one of these rich, explosive extravaganzas of speech. I remember listening one day with trepidation when Mr. James, Sr., gathered his face into a half-humorous, half-thundery expression and then rolled...