Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
...time, then crowded the market-and thus forced prices up-to meet its commitments. Recently the Department of Agriculture won out on a plan of comparatively small, regular shipments (about 30-35 million bushels a month until next spring). Unless the winter wheat crop, which got off to a poor start, fails badly, the Government should have grain on hand to tide the U.S. over...
...live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn will come. . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down. . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make...
...story opens at the Kursk station in Moscow on a bright April day in 1902. Osokin, a young man of 26, is seeing Zinaida and her mother off to the Crimea. Zinaida is piqued with Ivan because he will not go with her, but he is too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason. The train leaves; Ivan is left alone; he feels for a moment as if the event had happened before. In the next two months he gets three letters from Zinaida; then she stops writing. Soon he hears that she is going...