Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left his job as teacher. On the desk of the St. Paul's business manager he dropped a sheaf of unpaid bills, all his money and stocks to meet them. Nine-tenths of the bills were for milk sent to neighboring poor people. He went off to Newport News, crammed 25 hours of air training into three days, went to France...
Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied...
Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...equally good job. And under the Geneva Convention of 1929, which provides for neutral inspection of prison camps to see that they measure up to proper welfare, educational, religious and recreational standards, the Y, along with the Red Cross, has had the added job of reporting on poor camp conditions to both sides. Neutrals, Swiss and Swedish Y-men will do the work among both U.S. and Japanese prisoners. "This means that the Japanese intend to abide by ... the Geneva Convention," said Mr. Strong, "that within the limits of war everything possible will be done to make...
...dollar taken from a poor man always reduces his current consumption, whereas a dollar taken from a rich man often merely reduces his capital or his savings. Part of the wartime fiscal job is to reduce current consumption, which competes with war production...