Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such, it is necessary for all but the exceptional concentrator and also a worthwhile course for distribution. Ec A suffers heavily, however, from poor integration and a notorious lack of uniformity in the quality and quantity of its presentation by the many instructors who give it. The suggestion has frequently been made that a competent lecturer would salvage the course, and this is probably true, though the Department cites numerous administrative difficulties that make this difficult to effect...
...Poor fielding coupled with inadequate hitting downed the Bellboys. Although they scored early and often at the outset of the game, racking up a five-run lead at the end of three innings, they were unable to stem the tide of a five-run rally in the fourth by Dunster, which went on to score two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to put the game...
...certainly a poor man. Bulb-eyed, walrus-mustached Parisian Léon Bloy published eight volumes of his journal, two autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
...translated into English: The Woman Who was Poor (Sheed & Ward, 1939, $2.50); Letters to His Fiancée (Sheed & Ward...
...Virginia "Grounds," laid out by Founder Thomas Jefferson. But 80-year-old Jefferson, matching the workmen through his spyglass from nearby Monticello, had dreamed of a Charlottesville that would be the "capstone of public education in Virginia"-a university for all the ablest citizens of the state, rich or poor. What it had largely become, said its critics, was an expensive finishing school for young...