Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Owing to the poor condition of the courts and to the high winds, the University tennis players have had little opportunity for spring practice. There seems to be some unusually good material, however, and the team's prospects are bright...
...Thieves" was written while its author was in College, being published by a New York magazine. It was dramatized last fall. The play deals with the adventures of two thieves, one rich, the other poor, and ends with the conversion of the former to a better life by the poor man. The situations are very funny and the plot lends itself to an enjoyable comedy...
...better today, but the class is still at the bottom of the list. There is no reason in the world for this, and, although the collectors are somewhat to blame, the members of the class have not shown the right spirit. This explains to a great measure our poor showing. 1914 GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...word perhaps regarding that poor woman in Canton. Now supposing this to be a fact attested by unbiased witnesses, would it be fair--unless it can be proved that it is an everyday occurrence--to condemn a people wholesale from one instance? As well consider the recent case of the New England clergyman Richeson as typical and condemn the whole American society! And apart from that, are there not even in the civilized West instances of suffering--unrelieved suffering--so heartrending as to lead some of the most thoughtful of men to turn pessimistic and pronounce modern civilization...
...people along the Atlantic shores of British America, Dr. Little pointed out, are almost entirely poor fishermen. In the northern district are Eskimos, while in the interior regions are some tribes of Indians in a primitive state of civilization. The majority of the population is composed of English, Scotch, and Irish who have become illiterate and isolated in the course of the last three hundred years. The women in this territory have little social standing, being allotted much heavy manual labor in the work of drying fish, besides having to care for their homes...