Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs them," a feeling shared by high-ranking members of the faculty, then the onus drops back into the lap of the administration. If, as is claimed by members of the Business Staff, there is very little control over whatever money that is donated, then all the faculty and poor boys can do is pray-or go to work on the affluent alumni so that future endowments will not be left to whim and fancy. While the Administration is fully aware that this whole business of gifts, wills, etc., is highly delicate and personalized matter, it should be aware that...
...dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...
...book describes Mrs. Webb's numerous investigations and reports, on trade unions, education, slum conditions and the inadequacies of the Poor Laws; we also got a picture of her continuous battle with the radical Socialists, first in the form of anarchistic trade union leaders near the turn of the century, later with the guild socialism of G. D. H. Cole, and after the war with supporters of the Russian revolution...
...seems to me that the Crimson editorialist has been confused by talk of "buyers' strikes" and consumers' self-discipline. AVC has urged people not to overpay, to seek to force prices down. But we do not urge poor people to do without milk for their children because the price has gone up. Nor do we ask veterans to do without education because it costs more to attend college...
...biggest discovery, for which he received a medal in 1939 from the American College of Physicians: nicotinic acid (part of B-2 vitamin) cures pellagra, a common affliction among poor Southerners who live on fatback and corn pone...