Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard has made a poor showing in the latest Foreign Service examinations, Shaw said. Last September out of 32 men who took the tests only 11 got the 70 per cent mark necessary to win an oral interview, and only one was finally accepted. Seven were taken in the 1938 competition, he added. Yale and Princeton have both outstripped Harvard recently, with Dartmouth and Williams well up in the running...
...refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
Bartók Béla (as Hungarians call him) as a mouse-poor student roamed his native land, bending a sensitive ear to its folk songs. Among the peasants Bartók met, by purest chance, another composer with the same idea: Zoltán Kodály. The two got together, noted down several thousand melodies. Kodály drew lustier inspiration from the Hungarian soil than Bartók: his suite from the opera Háry János, depicting the exploits of a mythical Magyar hero, became a concert favorite. Bart...
...counting overweighty American Tel. & Tel.). The reasons for this paradox were that: 1) although production continuously declined, the quarterly average was still good because of big backlogs of orders piled up last fall; 2) first-quarter earnings looked good because they were compared with the very poor first quarter of 1939. Some sample first-quarter reports...
...with the public debt approaching its statutory limit, Henry Morgenthau cut off one of his best markets: corporations, trusts, other institutions, who were glad to put $7,500 a year into bonds with a better yield than any other Government security on the market today. To individuals, rich or poor, Henry Morgenthau hopes to go on selling bonds indefinitely...