Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside form the diversity in the House's clientele, Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12, associate professor of Biochemistry, has a few other things to offer newcomers. Winthrop is traditionally the athletes' House, and before the war its men consistently ran away with the Straus Trophy. After a poor postwar start, the House is rapidly approaching its former athletic eminence...
...find two kinds of poor drivers," he announced, "those whose IQ shows they can't read the read signs, and others whose IQ's are above 110. College professors are in the latter group. Investigation indicates that professors at the steering wheel permit their thoughts to dwell on matters other than driving...
...Perfection is no longer in the mountains with hermits, in the convents with nuns. It is in the streets, in the banks, in the shops, in the trains and trolleys. Only last week the Roman trolley-car drivers gave a whole of one day's pay to the poor. That means one day of starvation...
...enough. A throng of 300,000 came to hear him call upon Italy to "give the world a new age of Christian individualism wherein the wealthy, like the early Christians, gladly share their excess wealth. . . . Woe to the rich man who does not hear the call. Woe to the poor man who angrily nourishes hate and dreams of violence.. . . The age of love is approaching...
Arab chieftains have a vested interest in an economy which would be likely to prevent any overtures to Russia. On the other hand, however, abandonment by the United States might drive the Jews to seek friendship elsewhere. If strategy is the answer, it is a poor strategy and doomed to failure...