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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That holdup gave the bankers pause. It gave more than that to tall, timid Leo Schramer, 41-year-old cashier. Said his uncle, Bank President William Schramer last week: "That poor cashier is a nervous wreck. Why, Leo's lost 20 pounds since the last holdup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Inviting Crib | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Many men in Soviet Russia . . . have died in concentration camps, or by other means, because they would not accept the untruths that Dr. Spitzer has chosen to espouse . . . Dialectical materialism! A better name would be dialectical murder . . . Any scientist who has such poor power of discrimination as to choose to support Lysenko's . . . genetics against all the weight of evidence against it is not much of a scientist, or, a priori, has lost the freedom that an instructor or investigator should possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Freedom & Lines | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...done a fair job under a very poor organization; with a new constitution containing these revisions, it could go much further. Though the Key has made some mistakes in its first year, it has done a great deal of useful and undramatic work. The college now supplies an official welcome to its visitors where its hospitality not so long ago, as Dean Bender pointed out, "bordered on rudeness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Points | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...only was Harvard's early passing and defense work poor, but to add to the Crimson's misery, Northeastern goalie Bob Howell and forwards Jim Bell and Jack Heavey were at their best. Howell made 36 saves and was especially in yielding in the third period. Bell, New England League high-scorer, tallied twice and heavey picked up a hat trick with three goals...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Northeastern Upsets Varsity Six, 5-4 | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

...hesitates to criticize a poll which was prepared over the course of two months with the help of the Social Relations Department (and corrected with its IBM machine). There can be little doubt, however, that the Council's recent Food Poll was poor. It asked the wrong questions right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thought for Food | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

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