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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Most of the diseases come not from poor health but from the nervous strain of modern living, he remarked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Illnesses in Student Body, Statistics of Dr. Bock Indicate | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...businessmen hastened to disavow their mayor. French-Canadian members of the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa publicly disagreed with him. A raucous debate was expected. Minister of Labor William Tremblay of Quebec declared: "Mayor Houde missed his shot with the Communists and is now trying his luck with the Fascists, poor fellow." Noteworthy it was, however, that the Quebec Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis preferred not to enter the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Houde for Dictators | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Freshman Hockey game with St. Paul's school originally scheduled to be played last Saturday has been postponed until today on account of poor ice conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 Pucksters Postpone Game | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...undefeated St. Paul's team will be the hardest that the Frosh will have to face. With warmer weather forecast for tomorrow, they may find poor ice at Concord. The Frosh hoopsters are evenly matched with Tabor, who have lost none of their eight consecutive games, Coach Skip Stahley said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '42 PUCKSTERS IN ACTION | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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