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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just where your writer digs up this deluded data? The poor misguided jerk must either not have been around at all, or he went around once too often. We at Wilson High, Long Beach, pride ourselves on our high percentage of wheels, but we most certainly have no such idiosyncrasies as your article describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...imperialist war and that upon such invasion it became a just war worthy of all material and moral support ; and they had the right publicly to express these views orally and in writing. They had the right thus to assert that the Government was at all times exploiting the poor and worthy workers for the benefit of the trusts and monopolies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHERE FREE SPEECH ENDS | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

With the 46,000 attendance last week, the poor showing this week may have little effect on the overall football sales for this year. The Cornell game, the only other home game so far this year drew 26,000 spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demand for Dartmouth Tickets Year's Lightest | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...hear that the United States has given $20,000,000 to Tito in order to keep open a gap in the Iron Curtain--to play politics, that is--when the U. S. Congress can scarcely bring itself to consider appropriating $35,000,000 for much-needed services to poor nations, under the Point Four program. We have presented the Russian propagandists with a ready-made, gold-plated argument for use not only in these doubtful areas and Europe, but indeed in the whole world...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...keeping with the strictly economic nature of aid under Point Four, the proposed bill is entitled "International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949," it calls for $35,000,000 the first year, to be used through the U.N. and in direct loans of money and assistance to poor countries throughout the world. Most of the funds would probably be distributed through the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

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