Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the House stick-wielders had had no practice and were, for the most part, in poor physical condition, there was a great ideal of enthusiasm and team spirit shown all around...
...your sister publication, LIFE, continually poke fun at us poor "semi-educated people" who are doing the best we can toward "self-improvement...
...Harlem, Satchelmouth announced that he could not go to the funeral. "Poor John," he mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans...
...products; 2) cheaper prices; 3) increased transportation facilities. More than half the German-Rumanian trade in grain and oil used to go by sea from Constantsa to Hamburg. That route is now cut and the trade has to be rerouted up the Danube or across southeastern Europe's poor railroad system. But barges and railroad cars are scarce in Rumania, and, moreover, many are owned by France and Great Britain. When the German delegation requested the Rumanians to commandeer these, Rumania refused. The Germans departed, but scarcely had they passed the frontier before Rumania had changed Governments. Premier Constantin...
Another Tiger, capable Jim Worth, and Dartmouth's Dan Dacey, receive top ranking in a season which produced few good guards. Worth, Dacey, Dunbar of Cornell, and Burnam of Yale were the best of a poor lot. Worth's experience and Dacey's speed put them on the first eleven...