Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the modern Western nations have adopted effective preventive checks, and only these nations have low death rates and high living standards . . . Nearly two-thirds of the world's 2.3 billion people, still relies largely on positive checks . . . and the people are poor and ignorant...
...lady bringing calf's-foot jelly to the drunken and dissolute mother of 13. If mother & brood went Communist, that was solely because of her moral disorders. One had, after all, brought the jelly; only so many calves had so many feet; and there were the deserving poor, the non-corrupt poor, the understandable poor on the west side of the village who had to have some jelly...
Results were poor. When solid winter cloud layers were sprinkled with dry-ice pellets (or water droplets or chemicals such as silver iodide), practically nothing happened. In no case did rain start falling unless it was already falling less than 30 miles away...
Boston Garden is a modern Colossueum. Under its blinding are lights, the best hockey players of the world engage in brutal, high-speed, modified mayhem. The incredible pace of pro hockey puts the amateur college game in the unfortunate position of a poor relation...
...poor old women: for these strong young...