Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...
...Perkiomen River, under whose ice he was drawn one winter night; up the Hudson's shore, west to the Ohio's falls, through Kentucky meadows (where Daniel Boone taught him how to "bark" squirrels), down a flooded Mississippi into Louisiana bayous; along Florida's keys. Always poor, Audubon let his loyal wife support him, while he followed his lifelong, single purpose: to paint the birds of the U. S. in their natural habitat...
...fact is that an elderly graduate got poor seats for 15 years. He was just an ordinary grad. He hadn't even made the Varsity Club by managing the badminton team or any other team, so he didn't get preferment...
...dinner of the Engineering Society, he emphasized the importance of the professional role. Poor distribution of the available natural resources has been the cause of their wasteful use, and in the future the engineer must strive to eliminate this condition...
...Investigators Bourke -White and Caldwell admittedly focused their attention and their camera on the poor-white and shanty-nigger side of Southern life, thus present a picture heavily weighted with misery, unrelieved by contrasting views of more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...