Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was nearly 20 years ago. Bad years had come-years of poor crops, high taxes, heavy cares about his own growing household. As youth and man Liu knew only the cloth sandals of his Szechwan neighbors...
...years, and he well deserved it. During the war he had labored long & hard, saving his country-and incidentally working up from Chairman of the State Defense Committee to full Generalissimo. His hair, even in official pictures, was now grey. And rumors persisted that his health was in very poor shape...
...Franklin would never have been admitted to Harvard, declared Harvard's President James Bryan Conant-at the same time conceding that failure to get in would doubtless have made "little or no difference" to him. Speaking at Chapel Hill (see EDUCATION), President Conant recalled that higher education in Poor Richard's time was largely a luxury of the wealthy, and busy-brained Ben lacked both "social and financial status...
...turn of the century, a restless, energetic young Episcopal monk of the Order of the Holy Cross (TIME, Aug. 20) had an ambition which he knew would cost money: to provide a decent, religious, private-school education for poor boys of good families. He got his Father Superior's permission, then mailed out appeals which would have brought him $250,000 had everybody contributed. He got $300. "Well," sighed Father Frederick Herbert Sill, "if the Lord wants me to start a school...
...worldly ways, "Pater's" school was a high success. Rich & poor alike partook of his simple religious faith and his exuberant spirit. The boys made their own beds, waited on tables, worked in the kitchen, did practically all the physical work of the school. This "Kent system" became famed in the secondary-school world and was aped, in varying degrees, by many another school. Kent's oarsmen, coached by Pater himself (an ex-coxswain at Columbia), rowed at many a famed Henley regatta in England...