Word: poorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Princeton's brand of "generally poor" English is "becoming worse every day" Willard Thorp, Princeton '26, warned in a recent Princeton Alumni weekly...
Idler's best efforts were its two 1951-52 productions: Ibsen's A Doll's House and Clare Booth Luce's The Women. But Idler was destined to inhabit the level of mediocrity: it rarely produced a poor show, but it never produced a really excellent...
...September Harvard graduate and off-campus students have been engulfed in a deluge of parking tickets for "off-street" overnight parking in Cambridge. This activity is not predatory, contrary to under current opinion, but arises as the result of lack of information on the part of Harvard students and poor administration on the part of Cambridge authorities...
...example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate one another as only a poor white and a down-trodden negro can; but they must co-operate in even the simplest act of daily life...
...first glitter of the revolution has dimmed. The sandalmakers, smiths and petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...