Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hauser is somewhat irritated by those who think "there's something funny about my wanting to give something away." Says he: "The best things in life are free. I'm a poor philanthropist." Sample poem...
...university schooling. Unfortunately, Conant says, "as many promising boys & girls fail to go to college for economic reasons [alone] as the number who now enter ..." To provide genuine equality of opportunity, Conant favors: 1) federal aid to "shockingly inadequate" state school systems; 2) federal scholarships to the gifted but poor. And he disagrees with "defeatists" who fear federal control...
Coach Henry Lamar's practices have been aimed at correcting two of the squad's biggest failings--poor pass-receiving and ineffective blocking. Lamar has spent all week drilling his team through concentrated workouts on fundamentals...
Charlotte Horwood '49, former head of the library committee, and Barbara Heanue '49, Senior class representative on the Council, will discuss the library situation which now focuses on the poor check-out system. Annex students take out books overnight or for two-hour periods by signing the book cards and walking off with the books...
Lapses. In Vienna, Friedrich Koch admitted in court that he had three wives but pleaded for clemency on the grounds that he had "a very poor memory." In Fresno, Calif., Francis J. Bressi, 24, threw himself on the district attorney's mercy with a cry for help: because he "appealed to their motherly instinct," he said, he had married ten women in the last five years...