Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most dangerous are the low, dark nimbostratus (because of its poor visibility and the danger of icing) and the stormy thunderhead, cumulonimbus. Also to be avoided: the wavy, handsome billow cloud-which gives a very billowy ride...
Dear Friend: Have You Got PERSONAL PROBLEMS That Are Worrying You? Have World-Wide Sin, Violence and Depression upset YOUR life as they have so many, many others? For example: Are You in Poor Health? Are You Worried About Money Troubles or Debts...
Cake-making Miss Smith has pleasantly seasoned her first novel-an old-fashioned family pudding of well-baked corn-with two simple and staple condiments: authentic recollections of childhood and a well-communicated respect for the endless valor of the poor...
...barber shop and sits down for a leisurely haircut. "Is you wanna shev" says barber. Ah, small talk, thinks Freshman, and mumbles "Oh sure, sure." "Mepsbe you wanna shempa" queries barber, but the Freshman still in his rut says "Oh sure" again. And so it goes until suddenly the poor boy is immersed in towels scalded scorched and burned. His proud growth of youthful fuzzies is severed from its loving owner...
...last day of the month Harvard students are broke, 39 is a mystic Hindu number (like Ali Babs and the Forty Thieves, of which one was just poor but honest)., and the average allowance of students in Indic Philology 39b is 39 dollars (amazing coincidence you think?). Now who takes Ind. Phil. 39b. a snap course, why that great group of takers of snap courses, the Lampoon. There we have it. Last day, 39 dollars, Ind. Phil. 39b. 'Poon. It's plain as day. THE 'POON DID IT. That's all right, folks, don't applaud. It was elementary...