Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases as malaria, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia and beriberi.* Knowing the poor condition of the men who fought on Bataan, the War Department has made no charge of maltreatment. But the Surgeon General's Office thinks the death rate high...
From the time they leave breakfast until 11 o'clock at night, the V-12ers are as free as civilian undergraduates, except that it's considered very poor form to cut classes or conditioning or anything else...
...beginning of the dance the poor guard at the entrance to Soldiers Field was dutifully presenting arms to each officer as he passed by. Checking with our friends in the crowd we found only a half dozen who returned the guard's present arms with a hand salute. As for the officers who neglected to return the salute because they did not notice it or because noticing it they did not realize it must be returned these men did not add to their own reputation...
...brushstroke as of Aug. 31, unless private funds come to their rescue, will be 42 uniformed artists (19 civilian employes, 23 from the Army). Among the painters involved are: George Biddle himself (now in Algeria), Californian Millard Sheets, Texan Howard Cook, Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod, New Yorkers Henry Varnum Poor, Reginald Marsh, Alexander Brook...
...faculty has its orders, to take it easy on the poor lads. This mill goes on for weeks; every Friday the plunger squirts a package of little demons into 950 unsuspecting arms. And then guys start to faint, and instructors make with mercy...