Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the sun is bright). Next day, he rose at 5:45 a.m. as usual, took one look at the soaked fields. If the weather didn't dry up soon, the corn would be late going in, and it might be soft, come harvest time. Soft corn made poor feed...
Midwest farmers have had poor luck with their pigs this spring. Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven. And the young pigs were sickly, died like flies during the first week. Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived. Pork chops would be expensive next winter...
...tomb became a tourist attraction. John became famous. He used to spend his Sundays at the graveyard, watching folks gawking at his marble likenesses. His relatives quit bothering him. He used up all his money, retired to the Brown County poor farm and lived at public expense. Last week he died, aged 92. Those who attended the funeral said he looked satisfied...
Bearer of Good News. In a clear, confident voice, loud enough to be heard throughout the chamber despite its poor acoustics, the Finance Minister gave resoundingly good news. For the fiscal year ended March 31 there was "a surplus larger than the accumulated total of all the previous surpluses in our history." It was $352 million, and the national debt had been reduced by that amount-to slightly more than $13 billion. For 1947, Abbott expected the value of Canada's national product to increase from $11.1 to $12 billion. There was full employment, and "prosperity never exceeded...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...