Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...although the new tax bill boosts income taxes to new heights to reach its $6 billion total, inflation cannot be prevented by making the "new poor" poorer. It can be prevented only by keeping the "new rich" from spending their new income...
...safari had as its objective the testing of special food provided by the Fatigue Lab for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and sleeping bags, air mattresses, and tents for the Alpine division of the Army. Although bad weather and poor climbing conditions harried the expedition, the Army equipment met the rigid test...
...Listeners are on the whole easily pleased. Very few programs, no matter how poor, provoke a majority of left-handed button pushes. (Although the program analyzer is not as yet used commercially, one network dropped a particularly atrocious show after an analysis showed more negative than positive responses...
...inspired at least ten other major books (e.g., Gerald Johnson's The Wasted Land). It also won the distinction of being banned by Georgia's gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge. Thanks to Dr. Odum, Southerners talk frankly and learnedly about once unmentionable taboos: hookworm, poverty, farm tenancy, poor schools...
Only in its poetry does the issue really seem lacking. Harry Feltenstein's "Class Poem" retains in the reading much of the superficial obscurity which bewildered '42 when they heard its recital and the discouraged bitterness which fills it would be a poor commentary on Harvard's first war class if it could honestly be thought to represent them. Walter Eberlein's translations seem distinctly clumsy, while it is almost impossible to find appropriate surroundings for the misplaced commuter of Jack Crockett's "Seven: forty-five...