Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denver's Dr. Harry Corper, 65, who developed the test, is an oldtime foe and onetime victim of the white plague. An army major in World War I, he moved to Denver in 1919 and accepted the post of head researcher at the National Jewish Hospital (for poor T.B. patients). He has spent the last 30 years in his cluttered office and spotless laboratories trying to find ways to outmaneuver and defeat the tubercle bacillus. Still bright-eyed and vigorous but looking something like a fugitive from a Stanley Steamer, Dr. Corper wears a grey peaked...
...winning jockey was Irishman Leo McMorrow, a pro from Mount Shannon, County Sligo. Said he: "It's a once in a lifetime. Lord Mildmay? Poor beggar, he's a heart of fire, but he'll never make...
...musical terms, so that there is a lot of pretty tedious recitative, much of which is superfluous. The verbosity has apparently proved too much for Britten, for his music, though following thought and mood, does not fit the words very skillfully. This failing was exaggerated Thursday night by poor diction on the part of both soloists and chorus...
...came to me in tears. 'I was unable to save the soul of that poor creature,' she told me. The sister was wrong. In this woman's death cry there lay only the dramatic and profound aspiration of all Spain's poor for better laws of social justice. She had been taught by false and cunning prophets that happiness would be brought by Russia. The error is not hers-it is ours. It is ours because we are turning away from the poor and from the social teaching of the gospel ... It is our duty...
...year-old, he flew homemade model planes in Manhattan's Central Park. At the Hill School, classmates nicknamed the quiet youth "The Mummy"; but at Yale, Trippe blossomed out, went in for crew, swimming and football. "I was a guard," he grins, "on a very poor football squad-we lost twice to Harvard and twice to Princeton in my two years...