Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dilapidated farmhouse and then sees his hopes of an idyllic old age threatened, respectively, by a wife whose love for things rural extends very little beyond Central Park, a mortgage held by the neighborhood crank, and the explosion of a rich uncle myth into the reality of a parasitical poor relation...
...During air attacks the thickly populated areas of towns and cities are bound to suffer most. Those areas are inhabited by people who are usually poor and who are not likely ever to improve their lot and who are no great asset to the community. . . . Continuous explosions of heavy bombs are bound to unhinge mentally those whose nervous systems are not as strong as they should be. Aerial bombings should therefore enable us to discover a number of incipient neurasthenics who, in the interests of race selection and social hygiene, should not be permitted to reproduce their kind. After they...
Equally gracious was Independent Reakes, onetime mayor of Wallasey, a local A.R.P. chief who had sweated himself helping poor families during the blitz. Said he: "It is a victory for Churchill!" But Independent Reakes, like Independent Brown of Rugby, had an addendum: "Our enemies will now know that Wallasey wants a vigorous prosecution of the war with a fight to the finish. The voters are dissatisfied with party politics...
...Reports on explosives, plastics, rubber technology were omitted at the American Chemical Society's Memphis meeting (TIME, May 4). The history of chemistry was largely discussed. Attendance was poor...
Since U.S. dairy cattle give down more than 100,000,000,000 pounds of milk a year, the U.S. has plenty of milk. But ice cream -childhood's caviar, poor man's pheasant, fat lady's tempter -has the demerit of needing sugar as well as milk. There was no sign last week, however, that ice-cream output would be seriously curtailed. It just won't be so fancy. Although some big, inventive ice-cream makers have been turning out a total of 28 flavors, ten seemed plenty...