Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarships are awarded by the will of Cecil John Rhodes, who died in 1902 after establishing the British Empire throughout South Africa, and after whom the Colony of Rhodesia was named. He attended Oxford University for periods broken by poor health between 1872 and 1878, when he obtained his degree...
Ambassador Johnson on his gunboat in the river had a front seat at the bombing of Nanking's railway station and its Hsiakwan slums along the Yangtze. There Chinese too young, too old, too poor, too sick or too ignorant to have left Nanking were slain in slews. Japanese bombs wrecked and ignited their miserable huts, blew them to bits, seared the living, cremated the dead. Instead of panic or disorder, the reaction of Nanking's wretched poor seemed to be either to cower bemused and trembling or to rush into the streets with yells, curses and fists...
From the menus of some railroad dining cars and many a restaurant, beef several months ago made a silent but definite exit. From the tables of the poor, pork ("the poor man's food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost...
...years ago he started to follow the academic fortunes of every freshman who entered Minnesota. Last week in a learned treatise Scholarship and Democracy* he reported that more than one half (52%) of 1,438 who matriculated in 1931 never became successful students. Of the children of the poor, 15% won honor standing, 58% did satisfactory work; of the well-to-do, only 6.5% achieved honors, 42% passed. But only one of 1,600 laborers in the State sends a child to the university, whereas one of 21 financiers is represented...
...such a "good society," ruled by no personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...