Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About half of San Francisco's boards expect to draft childless married men in two weeks. Atlanta's boards were inducting married men without children, many another with thick glasses, poor hearing, few fingers. Such men can relieve others for duty and up to 30% of them can be repaired for combat by special medical attention. Examples: at one replacement center 18 one-eyed men are mechanics and clerks; out of a I-B battalion 10% entered officers training schools for administrative jobs...
After the Crimson's poor record of sinking only six out of 14 free throws in the exhibition game Saturday, Brown has been giving the squad a lot of work in this department. One man who should do well at this is Dean Hennessey, who last year made about ten straight free throws for the Freshman team...
...moment the marvelous memories of the spirit of "This is the Army," put aside the personalities of Crosby and Astaire, and run over all two dozen of the songs from these shows. If you can remember more than six, you must admit than the add up to a poor total...
...result of this lack of self-criticism is not only poor music, but also frequent lapses of taste. Berlin's touch with the common person then descends into mere vulgarity. This common touch stands up beautifully in such a number of "What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear" in "This Is the Army." Here is a poor song but a fine idea, dealing with the substitution of khaki uniforms for zoot suits...
...irrigation to grow anything more than sagebrush in the Utah desert. But Young was a prophet who revealed God's will to his group of Saints, and they took his word as they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints to swell the ranks of the new Utopia...