Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, and have about 10,000 books at their disposal. While Dudley could hold no such collection, it does have facilities for a nucleus, and more shelves could be easily built to hold a few reference books and the texts used in most undergraduate courses. It's a pretty poor philosophy, or anything else, to ignore a problem when it can't be completely solved...
...elected a tithingham, herdsman, drummer, and horgreeve. Yet, the voter is still faced with far from a short ballot, for he must choose 16 men to guide the destiny of Calais during 1948--moderator, clerk, selectmen, school directors, auditors, listers, trustees of public funds, cemetery commissioners, overseers of the poor, road commissioner, constable, law agent, grand, juror, health officer, truant officer, and the local old age officer...
...finally voted to allot $1.40 of each $100 valuation to the selectmen to carry out their administrative duties during the year; $2 for schools; $1.20 for the roads; 40 cents for the poor; and 50 cents for the town debt--a total of $5.50. Even though this still represents a substantial increase over the more usual $4 tax rate, the citizens of Calais took another look at their new snow plow and willingly agreed...
...less than $1.48 a word. When the women met at the well it was enough if one of them said: "Piers is at it again." Everybody knew Piers. Everybody knew whether the statement meant that Piers was experimenting with a new crop called "turnips," or giving money to the poor, or lying drunk in a haystack. The news at the well was not only intelligible, it was adequate...
...hero of this novel is like the title, a trifle bewildered about English syntax but eloquent just the same. He is an old black man in an old black suit, pastor of a poor country church in Natal, and South Africa is seen through his hurt and innocent eyes. Father Stephen Kumalo is a Zulu whom white missionaries redeemed from darkness. But neither he nor his tribe have found peace on earth since the tribal society was destroyed...