Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard CRIMSON of Saturday, October 31, there appeared a piece entitled, "The Vagabond: The From of Travel," describing a certain young man's efforts to obtain a scholarship grant to several foreign universities. We are of the opinion that this poor student's French section man, M. Plombier, was not the ame sympathique" as thought, but has thoroughly ruined the student's chances of receiving a grant from the French government by grossly misquoting the opening lines of Paul Verlaine's poem, "II Pleure Dans Mon Coeur." They should read...
...suggested that, without altering their tax-exempt status, they should pay to the city a "donation in lieu of taxes," similar to the procedure that both Harvard and M.I.T. follow in Cambridge. But this proposal is not as simple as it may sound, for, while the city is poor, so are the colleges...
...Holdouts. The only significant color holdout, in fact, is New York City, which prints more big dailies (seven) than any other city in the U.S. Manhattan papers have shown little inclination to depart from the traditional black-and-white news package, and point, with some justice, to the poor quality and high cost of newspaper color and to reader indifference as reasons for staying in the black. A full-page color ad in the Chicago Tribune costs $6,324.72, v. $4,374.72 for black and white. Color equipment may require an investment of as much...
...This week San Francisco's Dr. Meyer Friedman told the American Heart Association in Philadelphia of a link connecting an individual's behavior in a stressful occupation, through hormone channels, to the vital arteries that supply the heart. In the report, go-getters come off with a poor prognosis...
...could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys, and Tom Edison left home at 16 for the wandering life of the 19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street...