Word: poorly
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Most Wisconsin fans believe it is their privilege to cheer for their home team, and to boo displays of poor sportsmanship and poor officiating. That's what they...
...Little can be expected," he declared, "from exhortations to science to produce practical ends. On the contrary, development of our practical technology provided ever-growing and rich fructification for the works of a science. Technology is a good efficient cause, but a very poor final cause for science...
Robert Riskin, it is reasonable to suppose, must be a very brave man. He has allowed his name to appear portentously in all publicity concerning "Magic Town," a deed which serves to point him out publicly as the person chiefly responsible for this poor and clumsy movie. And such an admission requires courageousness beyond the ordinary, as it is no ordinary density that fails to achieve something worthwhile with the services of James Stewart and Jane Wyman...
...Russell H. Conwell's "Acres of Diamonds," which preached the comforting doctrine that wealth was within the reach of every man: "Get rich, young man, for money is power, and power ought to be in the hands of good people. . . .I say you have no right to be poor. . . ." Conwell gave the lecture 6,000 times, for fees ranging from $100 to $500. Each night, after deducting his expenses, he mailed the money to some "deserving" boy to help him through college. Chautauqua was like that...
...compare a Lowell House converted single with an Eliot House converted double and conclude that Lowell dwellers are more comfortable is sheer folly. The very size of Lowell single rooms makes them inferior to even the smallest double; yet, because of the poor rent policy, the men in minute singles are paying rents comparable to others in more spacious doubles and triples...