Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads, labor legislation and farm relief, he was speaking for thousands of poor, proud, stubborn, toiling men. They elected him governor thrice, sent him to the U.S. Senate for four terms as an insurgent Republican...
...Poor shooting was one of the two primary factors of the debacle. The other was a six-foot, six-inch center named Jack Underman, whose fine pivot work and sheer size proved too much for his federal defenders. Before he fouled out in the last quarter, the husky Sophomore ace had accounted for 14 of his team's 46 points, enough to make him high scorer of the evening. Runner-up with 12 points was his teammate, Paul Huston, while Wyndol Gray and Saul Mariaschin led the Crimson offense with 11 apiece...
Full production of Maxwell Anderson's tragedy "Winterset" has been begun by the Dramatic Club, with casting completed. Director William A. West '49, and producer Peter Poor '47 are working to get the play in final shape for its opening on May 2 in Brattle Hall...
Like many another composer, Hungary's Bela Bartók lived and died a poor man. His sour and peppery music was bitterly condemned by many critics; audiences seemed to like it even less. Mostly it got played, if at all, before esoteric little groups of modernist composers and musicians, who had built up a tolerance to what the uninitiated regarded as barnyard music...
...were doing and thinking; we were trying to establish all over the civilized world more equitable human relations. We were trying to distribute the economic surplus of the machine age, and curiously, we thought that if we took the surplus away from the rich and gave it to the poor, we would be achieving our aims." He thinks that if the reform of Roosevelt I had succeeded, the revolution of Roosevelt II might never have had to occur...