Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play deals sufficiently with manners to prove Congreve the most polished of the Restoration dramatists. Like the rest of them, he had a poor opinion of the human race. Either self-indulgence or self-interest is always well downstage in Love for Love; there is no love for love's sake. But where most Restoration writers were gross, Congreve was graceful. His people air their low thoughts in high language; his scandalmongers are witty; his sluts have style...
...Having noted the consistently poor Freshman grades, Dean Hanford successfully advocates Board of Freshman Advisors. Recommends that Council provide for representation by new House units...
...occasion he excited the sympathy of a group of people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...
...poor territory, but Bracy knew what its oil men, coal miners, farmers and railroaders wanted, stocked it for them. Sales, helped by the war boom, went up; so did Bracy's bonus. By 1944 Bracy was getting a bonus of $196,394 plus $25,000 salary. Stockholders began asking questions; so did other branch managers, cramped in straight salaries. Bracy was rocking the Kroger boat...
...plain Russians in the streets, in hospitals, in theaters, in churches, in schools, in orphanages. Some of the film's most interesting revelations are not breathless news, but are very convincing. Among the strong impressions left by this study of scores of faces: 1) Russians are bitterly poor but their fortitude evidently goes as deep as their poverty; 2) religion, among religious Russians, is still a strong and deep-rooted influence; 3) children are treated with kindness and gayety, and the treatment blooms in their faces; 4) the Soviet bureaucracy, whatever its sins and shortcomings, appears to have...