Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also Anatole Holt, Gerard C. Iarrelli, Paul Kaufman, Donald Kennedy, Jerrold B. Lanes, David Lattimore, John C. MacDonald, Christopher Martin, Irvan T. O'Connell, Charles C. Carbone, Hewitt Panteleoni, John S. Pearson, Jr., Charles C. Poor III; Isaac Thomas, Jr., and David F. Williams...
...last February, the building might now cost close to $1,500,000. But Yale has set a $10,000,000 goal for its memorial, and Dartmouth, considerably smaller in size, has already raised close to $1,600,000 for a $4,000,000 project. Harvard has never been a poor man's school...
When he returned to the Yankees in 1946, there was no more of the old booing. After his long layoff, he had one poor season, then struck his stride last year and edged out Ted Williams for the American League's "Most Valuable Player" award (his third). Gruffed Williams: "It took the big guy to beat me, didn...
...ruins of the war, Faulkner shows the mean-spirited and hard-driving Snopeses, poor whites who absorbed the cheap commercialism of the carpetbaggers, rising to economic and social power by defeating the Sartoris clan, impotent aristocrats talking about the code of chivalry but unable to bring it to life. Faulkner is especially adept at portraying the creatures of the decayed South: Gowan Stevens, a gentleman of the old school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed...
...asked the man how much, and he said $200. I took pity on him. I told him to go back to the Piazza and get his ring's worth from some rich American. I told him that we were just youth hostelers, and thus among the poorest of the poor. He asked how much we had, and I said, thinking this would get rid of him at last, that between...