Word: thriftless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they believe it impious to sign contracts, thriftless to accept charity, the hardworking, straight-laced Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania firmly flouted the late AAA. Farming Mennonites voluntarily reduced acreage in accordance with the Act's spirit but put their names to nothing accepted no benefits (TIME, March 18, 1935). In Lancaster, Pa. last week the Mennonite Board of Missions revealed that the new Social Security Act is equally incompatible with the sect's tenets. The Board wrote the Philadelphia office of the Social Security Board declaring that, although Mennonites will gladly pay the taxes the law demands...
Characteristic of the little torments which University officials invent to rack the pocketbook of thriftless students is the requirement that House members forego not less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses...
...They are so thriftless...
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