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Word: poorness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the 48 components maintaining their sovereign rights. Of course, it makes a more sensational article . . . when you drag in the Negro question-and probably sells more copies in your Northern stronghold where they can continue their criticism of the Southerners for their oppression of the poor blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...fist, attained their pitch at 1,000 or more feet up, waited on until the game was served to them," and swooped to the kill at speeds up to 300 m.p.h. One flight a day has so far been enough to persuade other birds that Coltishall and Driffield are poor places to linger. Gatow's starlings might well feel the same when Blackie got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Calling Blackie | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Wickford Point, the 1939 Marquand bestseller about upper-class decline & fall. The Hales are co-owners with Marquand of Curzon Mill, where the family has lived for generations, and which they say is the scene of the book. John has been trying to buy them out, and the money-poor, land-proud Hales took the case to court rather than move off their home place ("We want it because it has been a part of us for so long. And when you get old you want to go back to the beginning . . . The family . . . has always gone back there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Poor Little Rich Girl. "I used to ride with him, fly with him, fish with him, and just shoot the breeze with him.," she says. She grew up with a fiercely loyal admiration for him. At 19, just out of fashionable Foxcroft School, she went to work as a $30-a-week cub on the Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Congressman Kennedy, speaking from his experiences as a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, declared that passage of the Taft-Hartley Act was an indication of the mentality of the Republicans and of their poor leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington, Beer Argue Election Race; Kennedy, Eliot Lash into Republicans | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

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