Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British patrols said that Rommel had withdrawn the bulk of his German troops to the rear for rest and refitting, had left Italians to hold most of the front. He evidently had a poor opinion of Britain's Eighth Army, and of the chances of a British offensive...
Brazil's Air Force, many of whose pilots are U.S.-trained, in 1940 had an estimated total of only 400 planes. But poor communications have recently made Brazil feverishly air-minded, and with U.S. assistance it has built some 600 new landing fields...
...quite a South of his own, and his own way of telling about it. He knows how to give social history the easy clarity of a good comic strip, the human resonance of a good novel. His first book, Men Working (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), was a tragicomedy about poor white farmers, brought to town and stranded there by WPA. Dollar Cotton is the life story of a Cotton King, Otis Town...
After early season ups and downs, the Crimson has developed an attack to match Berg's consistently fine and sometimes spectacular work on the mound. Provided that the poor batting background at Brown's Aldrich Field doesn't throw their timing off, the Harvard line-up should keep hurler Nichols and the Bruin outfielders hustling this afternoon
Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...