Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northern Atlantic Coast last fortnight. Blowing up from some 25 miles in the interior, the first twister knocked down a row of Negroes' houses near the Ashley River. Within seven minutes, another twister licked down Meeting Street, along the Cooper River, wrecked more ancient hovels of the poor, flattened many a garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages on Sullivan's Island, where Fort Moultrie (four times...
...Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky's life belie his haughty mien but not his profession. He was born in 1874 in the tiny bedraggled central Russian village of Vyshny Volochek. His mother, who died shortly after he was born, was a pianist; his father gave lessons on the violin. A poor boy, destined by a traditionally musical family for a musical career, he was soon on his way to Moscow in search of a scholarship at Moscow's Philharmonic Conservatory. Because he was late in applying, and because there were only a few places left in the conservatory orchestra...
Dudley's Aerials Poor...
Sixth Crew--Stroke, Purdy; 7, Macy; 6, Poor; 5, Morgan; 4, Lloyd; 3, Hinchcliff; 2, Bittenbender, bow Moseley; cox Pheasant...
Monday quarterbacking says that the Crimson used a poor choice of plays. They should have realized they were up against a team which was bottling up their spinners by closing in. They should have taken to the air early and often. But anyone can criticize the choice of plays of a losing club; this, like Geneva, does not heal the wound...