Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa law provides that failure to transmit telephone messages "with fidelity and without unreasonable delay" is a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine, a year in jail, or both. Carl Daubendiek, father of six, was indicted, tried and found guilty. (A county poor overseer had testified she was held up in getting an ambulance for a patient, who later died.) This week, while a district judge pondered his sentence, Carl Daubendiek was out on bail. Jefferson telephone operators were eschewing editorial observations and confining themselves strictly to asking for the number, please...
...which compared the spirit and fighting of U.S. soldiers in the South Pacific with the work and zeal of U.S. labor in the factories at home. In the blunt phrases of Captain Eddie-the archetype of the U.S. rugged individualist-U.S. labor has always come off a very poor second...
...ghost-rich region of Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death of poetry...
...work or the armed forces themselves. The second reason, paradoxically enough, is more directly bound up with the students' welfare. If an undergraduate has not attended a course regularly up to the time of his abrupt departure for the Army or Navy, his cumulative grade would be so poor that he could not be given final credit for the course...
Moreover, instructors have complained more about poor attendance this year than ever before and midyear grades show that cutting has been a far too wide-spread vice. Not only have most of the previous reasons for leniency disappeared, but there is the added obligation of a student of military age who should use his deferment or his reserve corps status to his fullest capacity while in the University. So far the war has had little effect on college life. This new regulation will hit the undergraduate in a very sore point and it will certainly force a more rigorous academic...