Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan, where the largest note in circulation is 100 yen (worth approximately 50?), counterfeiting is a poor business at best, and the Ikedas were not even good counterfeiters...
...kids. Farmers stopped working. Storekeepers closed up shop and went gallivanting off to watch their local heroes perform. Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game, plays to larger crowds than any other U.S. sport (1,241,594 people paid to see last year's tourney in Indiana alone...
...nothing to indicate that Mrs. Partridge might, under different circumstances, have been herself. But her answer showed that the artist had forgotten neither her British background nor her Irish wit. The lady in question, she replied, "lived highly respected, and is still remembered as the 'better half of poor Colonel Partridge. When she died the neighbors sighed, 'She was fey but she was county...
Ministerial Washerwomen. Daumier's perspective on Paris was that of a fiercely republican poor boy. When the July revolution of 1830 toppled Charles X from the throne, Daumier was a hopeful 22; Louis-Philippe, the compromise "Pear-King," soon blasted his hopes. He caricatured the umbrella-toting King as a Gargantua being stuffed with gold by dutiful midgets. Gargantua was displeased, but Daumier got off with a suspended sentence. In 1832 he tried his hand at a cartoon in which the King's ministers appeared as washerwomen. That one cost him six months in jail...
...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...