Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale...
...below is a light-colored, often almost white layer of soil from which most of the soluble minerals have been leached by the heavy rainfall. Such a tree-formed soil is favorable for trees, but when man clears the forest and plants his grasslike wheat or corn, he gets poor crops at first...
...should certainly be cherished and protected, the soil men say, but it is not irreplaceable. In 1937, a U.S. Government experiment station skinned ten inches of soil off half an acre of virgin Ohio grassland, leaving nothing but the yellow subsoil. Corn planted on an untreated strip of this poor stuff produced no crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice the U.S. average. Pennsylvania farmers often sell the topsoil of whole fields...
...real issues are Herter's reactionary foreign and domestic record, and O'Brien's fine record of service to the poor and working people of Boston. We cannot support the belief that Herter's foreign policy achievements "should be enough to offset domestic conservatism on election day." Rather, if these are his most important achievements, they are more than valid bases for his defeat. Harvard Committee for Wallace
After 36 pages of this, poor old Professor Wilson and his earnest, 201-page discussion just don't have a chance...