Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich war worker would still get clipped for his newly inflated income. But, while the new-poor would get a break now, the new-rich would get one later, since they would have paid taxes on their war-inflated earnings the year they were earned, would not be stuck with them in peacetime, when they might be making much less...
...From a poor immigrant to an associate professor at Harvard is the log-cabin to white-house story of Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, who is rated year after year as "top-notch" by his admiring students...
...sharply down to the left. Morgan craned his neck far out over the bombsight, pressed his nose against the glass of the compartment and looked down. I peered out of the side. Below was the green, mucky lake and black smoke was rising from it. "That's damn poor bombing," said Morgan. But as the plane swerved further we saw flowers of smoke issuing from the heart of the railway station...
...many a U.S. citizen who yearned for a good steak last week, one kind of farm abundance (see above) was poor consolation for another farm shortage...
...autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...