Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report on allergic children [TIME, April 18] provokes serious reflection. After over 30 years of active medical practice I can say with utmost conviction that the specimen cases cited in the report which you quote are evidently children who have been poorly brought up, either by ignorant and indifferent parents or, more likely, by mothers who regard themselves as "progressive"-young ladies who swear by Freud and know all there is to know about inhibitions, complexes and the subconscious ego. Pity their poor children...
...answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some U.S. women are so poor that they have to sell their children. Triumphantly he cited some news clippings that told of a black market in adopted babies...
Japan is desperately poor. Miles of gaping ruins still deface the land, though in the big cities jerry-built warrens of small houses and shops hide some of the scars of bomb destruction. The crowds that haggle over prices in Tokyo's Shimbashi market are only slightly better dressed than they were four years ago. High priced Tokyo shops sell "fancy silk ties, brocade purses and delicate chinaware, but few can afford them. The Ginza's humbler stalls have stacks of hardware and kitchen utensils, but still at soaring black-market prices. Chubby new autos (toyoda toyopetto...
...Finally the Corporation had to intervene so that a Class Day could be held at all. One result of this dispute was the temporary replacement of the Tree Exercises with the Harvard-Yale baseball game. The game, which is now apparently a permanent fixture, was seen glumly as a poor substitute for the more exciting custom. In 1882, when the baseball contest was again proposed, it was decried on the rather illogical ground that rain had spoiled the first Class Day game...
...freshman baseball team has hit poorly against good pitching, and against poor pitching they have hit well. Against good hitting their pitching has looked poor, and against poor hitting their pitching has looked good...