Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preserve such hard won rights as the right to vote, we look on while millions of Americans are denied this privilege. Eight Southern States require the payment of a poll tax before a vote can be cast, which is the same thing as withholding the right from millions of poor farmers and workers who can't afford such a levy no matter how small the amount may seem to outsiders. It is not part of democracy that people should be billed for their votes. The free, unrestricted use of that privilege is not only guaranteed by the Consitution, but supposedly...
...believe that Mussolini is today a very sick man because, not only is his family tree predominated by people who died young and his own children in poor health; but the Italian leader himself is a victim of syphilis, the professor concluded...
Early enthusiasts and amateurs of broadcasting took the theater as their heritage, as a matter of course. At first, being poor, they stuck to classics on which no royalties had to be paid. In 1928 pioneering NBC broadcast The Tempest-the first Shakespeare on the air. In that year it also produced classic Victorian melodramas like East Lynne...
...country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward the worst ends...
...liberal features of the Athletic plan, allowances for participation in spring sports such as tennis, baseball and others, could not be observed Monday and Tuesday, because of the inclement weather and the poor condition of both courts and diamonds. But coaches and authorities alike expect to see a great number of the physical-conscious members of '43 and '44 taking advantage of opportunities to play a set or nine innings as part of the conditioning plan. Tennis, normally the most popular spring sport, will probably attract a great part of the upperclassmen, while others will complete in ball games...