Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers don't give us a clear picture of the situation, he said, because the Chinese are so much more skillful at propaganda than the Japanese. China is a poor land for colonizing, having a bad climate and already full of Chinese...
...under no circumstances, by formal prearrangement. The Post occasionally subsidizes a favorite author by buying a poor story and never printing it, but unlike Collier's and Liberty it maintains no stable. However, when the editors and a veteran writer talk over and agree on a piece, it is rare that it is not accepted...
...Rehn Galleries, 24 new paintings by Ceramist-Architect-Painter Henry Yarnum Poor convinced critics that Mr. Poor at 49 had done well to leave his ovens cold and his drafting board dusty. Freer, more decisive, more vivid than any past productions of this able artist, the paintings affected other beholders like a bracing breeze. First Range of the Rockies, done in Colorado last summer, was a majestic landscape in greens and purples, given an effect of great distance by the sharp, tiny black shadows of cabins in a valley foreground. The Golden Tree, one of the largest, best-designed canvases...
Tammany's erstwhile strength lay in its ability to furnish services which the government, inhibited by the folklore of the times, could not provide. An organization called "Tammany" could help the poor by giving food-baskets, clothing, coal and jobs, when such help from an organization called "government" might have regimented the people, sapped their vigor, and paved the way for Socialism. But under Roosevelt and LaGuardia the government by providing relief from the City Hall made unnecessary the exhorbitant tax which New Yorkers paid when this service emanated from the Wigwam. Good government is now preferred to Tammany misrule...
...step is part of Brooks House's drive to provide adequate playgrounds for the poor children of Cambridge and vicinity...