Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrecked a DH4 on a night take-off for a transcontinental flight from Jacksonville to San Diego-a major project then. Fellow officers found him hanging from a strut, weeping. Did the engine quit? No. Did the undercarriage wash out? No. Structural failure? No. Well, what happened? "Damn poor piloting," said Jimmy Doolittle...
...Since we are able to play football this year, the Yale game means more than the rest of the season combined. It means the difference between a poor and a good season this year. That is hard to believe if you are a Freshman, but all over the nation Harvard and Yale graduates will be glued to the radio listening to the game and cheering for their college...
...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...
When these are finished, the U.S. will still remain far behind the Axis, which has 100 short-wave transmitters, even a poor second to Great Britain, which has some 50. But the setup will permit the U.S. to air its point of view to the rest of the world on a new scale...
Suppose that Bridges is a Communist. Then the issue boils down to whether a Communist should speak on Armistice Day. The Legion answers in the negative, holding that "it is in poor taste to invite a person with his reputation to be a speaker on the very day when every veteran of World War 1 is observing the end of hostilities in the successful fight for American ideals in 1918, the same ideals and principles involved in the present war, which this man tried to tear down and replace with un-American Communistic theories." For twenty years, the Supreme Court...