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Word: poorly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Society has harsh punishments for a girl who gets "in trouble." If she is poor and ignorant, she may be driven to use concoctions offered by people like "Doctor" Charles Faiman. When she accepts such "help," there is an excellent chance that she will never need help of any kind again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

...When the poor brindle beast had eaten its fill, they placed it in the collar to recover. And they named it Arthur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alley Denizen Cope Week's Fare from Agassiz Pet Fans | 10/15/1948 | See Source »

...H.A.A. asked all students to pick up their tickets as soon as possible before the deadline for returning them at 5 p.m. Thursday, Lunden said this would facilitate exchanging poor seats for better ones which may be turned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Officials Clipped Best Seats From Harvard's Bloc | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...miners are poor individually, collectively they are rich. Last week their rich union, the United Mine Workers of America, announced that a research project financed by its welfare fund had at last done something for victims of silicosis. The work was carried out by a team from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, led by Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. The key discovery-how to get healing drugs into silicotic lungs-was made by Dr. Hurley L. Motley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Stiffened Lungs | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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