Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...severe cutting down of rations and the intensely cold weather produced a peculiar disease-an alimentary emaciation . . . with a variety of surgical complications such as gangrene of fingers, trophic ulcers [sores caused by poor nutrition] . . . avitaminosis...
...taxpayers who were able to pay two years' taxes by July 1 with a 1 to 4 per cent reduction in their 1942 liabilities. That this would benefit only those who were wealthy enough to have considerable savings and that it would, therefore, help the rich and not the poor seems not to have occurred to Randolph Paul and the other Treasury experts...
...fight for a Senate bill sponsored by Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill. Major features: a federal fund of $200,000,000 for each emergency year to pay teachers' salaries; a permanent federal fund of $100,000,000 annually to help relatively poor states raise educational levels. The bill would increase teachers' salaries, bar cuts in state school budgets, leave distribution of federal funds to state authorities, forbid Federal control of schools...
...Poor John Hancock! As frisky as a cocker spaniel three weeks old when he walked into Carpenter last Saturday morning, he drizzled out with all the give of a wet dish rag after one look at the standings so blatantly evident on each class bulletin board...
...sure as shooting out to the California I go again! There just ain't no justice. Now, if they'd only make it the North Carolina for a change . . ." Then he must have thought of those standings for his face started to dribble down his shirt front again. Poor John! East Coast, West Coast . . . West Coast, East Coast . . . no wonder he's lost track...