Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S., families are asking the annual question: "Where do we go this summer?" War has made the vacation problem a great riddle, with no easy answers. The New Rich have plenty of vacation money; the New Poor still have some vacation money left. The problem is where and how to go, under wartime living conditions...
...opened, there rolled out a human head, two human arms. Jacare's own comrades, examining the teeth, were doubtful it was Jacare. though expert criminologists, judging from the skull formation and skin color, were sure it was from Jacare's region. In any case, it was another poor jangadeiro...
...James B. "Powerhouse" Kobak, of New York and Syracuse, the intrepid A-Housers smashed a portion of the window, releasing the poor cat, who was left behind when the owner went on a vacation. But the reaction was not all sweetness and light, for the pussy scratched and bit the courageous Kobak and his companions, forcing them to deposit her back in the window again...
...Perry, it is quite obvious, spent too much time learning his lines to direct the play adequately, for its continuity is poor and it lacks even the subtlety that this garden variety of bedroom comedy commonly aspires...
...match marred by poor playing conditions, Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity Tennis team closed out a mediocre season last Saturday afternoon by losing to a powerful Yale squad, 8 to 1. Hugh Hyde and Lin Burton garnered the only point for Harvard, taking the last doubles contest from the Bulldogs...