Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
...movie (like the novel) propounds the obvious: that when a poor man (Van Heflin) marries a rich girl (Barbara Stanwyck) her money is a problem. The passages satirizing Wall Street and the New Deal are so plainly extraneous and contrived that even the actors seem embarrassed. In the end, Right & Left are reconciled in one mighty smooch in a darkened Washington apartment...
Boston's Little Theater, the Tributary, has opened its annual Shakespearean Festival with a presentation of "Othello" that is regrettably poor by all critical standards. To cast such an obviously aged man as Edward Finnegan in the role of the powerful and Jealous Moor is the grossest error in the production and one that grows increasingly ludicrous, despite the determined effort of both the friendly audience and Mr. Finnegan to rise above his handicap...
There has been considerable complaint from instructors on the poor quality of writing in exams. Little effort is made on their part to improve that standard, however. A few course heads have taken the trouble to permit the Student to see his exam before the grade has been recorded with the Registrar. But more have discouraged the student from doing so. In theory, the recording of grades before hearing complaints avoids a lot of trouble for the instructor, since the red tape involved in any change thereafter is virtually prohibitive. In practice, more careful grading and commenting on papers would...
...feet 24 hours a day," Miss Winfred Lydon, Director of the Nursery School, ruefully explained. "His poor little feet just couldn't get a chance to heal...