Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course; but it was, nevertheless, a resounding Democratic defeat. The fact was that the Democrats had fallen on their faces when they had every reason, and every precedent, for staying on their feet. They had tripped, almost absentmindedly, over Henry Wallace's highly emotional appeal to the very poor, the huddled minorities, and the tightly knit Communists...
...tutorial system, or what is left of it, is at the moment very poor primarily because the tutors are too overworked to give each tutee any real attention. The College says, with justification, that it cannot afford a great many tutors of high calibre or any at all in some departments. The honors thesis, which I consider very valuable, is limited, as is tutorial, to a restricted group of students...
...Color blindness almost always results from poor diet...
...National Airlines' planes were grounded; their 145 pilots and co-pilots were out on strike. Members of the A.F.L. Air Lines Pilots Association, they had walked out because of "concern over air safety" after A.F.L. mechanics and office workers had struck for more pay, and because of "notoriously poor pilot-management relations...
...comment on the fancy shoes being worn by the Marquess of Queensberry; for hero-worshipers he had the right tone of awe ("Now here comes J. Pierpont Morgan himself . . . [and] you see the lightning behind the brows, and sense the thunder in the voice"). To the honest, indignant poor, Runyon gave descriptions of Capone's ill-gotten silken underwear...