Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's youthful, grinny Mayor Edward Jeffries got through the nonpartisan primaries last week. But-as almost no one expected-he finished a poor second to up-&-coming John Francis James Fitz-Gerald. Reasons for the upset: 1) C.I.O. members voting for FitzGerald; 2) Negroes voting against Jeffries...
...Less elastic and flexible than natural rubber, synthetic treads crack, chip and separate more quickly, have poor resistance to heat. In truck tires, even when mixed with 20-30% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber heats up badly, has a record of frequent blowouts...
...connected with the right to property, it also lays down a procedure for governing without breaking the heads of any economic class. Washington and Hamilton may have been on the side of the well-heeled, but they believed in "constitutionalism" even when its application worked in favor of the poor and the propertyless. All of the important Founding Fathers were prepared to accept political defeat "if it comes by constitutional methods." That, as Beard is now prepared to argue, is hardly an "economic" aspect of the Founders' character...
...Billets have been out so long that everyone has become philosophical about his own. Even those poor unfortunates who didn't originally like their assignments have begun to discover good points. As a whole, the billet-list seems to have been nothing short of fabulous and it is hard to find many officers who did not receive one of their choices--the few who did not only serve to emphasize the many...
...kidding department: Yale is so sore at Harvard's cancellation of the traditional clash that the word "Harvard" has been deleted from all Yale songs this year, and for the 1943 season it's "Good Night Poor Princeton" and so on down the line...