Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before William Wrigley Jr. died in his sleep on the morning of Jan. 26, 1932, his long grey-brown mountain in the sea off Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...with our pictures on the front of The Ladies' Home Journal, and articles in Reader's Digest, and our pictures in the local papers-and Mrs. Harry Hopkins doing it-my, my, us poor sore-footed Nurse's Aides find we are morons...
...Spanish Morocco, at General Dwight Eisenhower's rear, Franco has increased his garrisons from about 135,000 to 180,000 men. Ill-equipped and poor though Spain is, some of the forces in Spanish Morocco are partially mechanized. Many are Moors, who are among the world's best soldiers...
...looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women--the myth is far stronger than the Rheinhardt legend. But the girls that have gone to Radcliffe have always had a pretty good time...