Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomadic migrations that take place every year when thousands of human beings and hundreds of thousands of animals migrate from the southern plateaus to the mountains in the north (just as their ancestors did thousands of years ago). I became chummy with the Khan of the tribe, one Fatula Poor Satib. He asked me to autograph something for him. And what do you think he pulled from his robe as he sat astride his big, white, handsome horse? Nothing else but a copy of TIME...
Liberal, Tory and C.C.F. alike went hammer & tongs after Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley, who has insisted that M.P.s must pay full income taxes on their $4,000 salaries, refused them exemption for living expenses in Ottawa. Cried Liberal Arthur Roebuck: "Members . . . grow poor in the service of the public." Said Tory Richard Burpee Hanson: "There is no other class in Canada which is making sacrifice of time and of ability and of capability and of money comparable to the sacrifices made by members of this Canadian House of Commons...
...behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed his name. Up & down...
...marriages resulted in only one child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...
...Since the last panic, second mortgages have virtually disappeared, as poor risks...