Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor of the Allied expedition at Gallipoli 25 years ago-turned into a blood bath by poor planning-Mr. Churchill this time took no chances on lack of preparation, manpower, support. Germany's initial invading forces outside the Oslo area could not be more than 15,000 men, scattered from Narvik to Stavanger, of which perhaps one-third were based on Trondheim. Observers in London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...officers who decide whether they are fit to continue with their training. Some typical questions do not concern grades but are aimed at the undergraduate's attitude toward the Dies Committee, unions, freedom of speech and of the press. Without the proper sympathies, a student is considered poor material for a more advanced course. This is what the R. O. T. C. calls training young men in American democracy...
...hard time at the John Mason Brown lectures. He has been to five out of six so far and he hasn't yet had a chance to sit down and enjoy one thoroughly. Brown has talked on every one of Vag's favorites among the modern dramatists, but poor Vag has been uncomfortable through them all. Brown has waxed witty on Shaw and on Shirley Temple; he has coined (or quoted) sparkling epigrams--the kind that Vag, himself coins (or quotes) in his day-dreams--on Chekhov and on Mrs. Roosevelt. But through it all Vag has sat disconsolate...
...LaGuardia, but he came back to Emerson D last Thursday. It was the worst experience of all. The only seat he could find was one on the stage right beside Brown. Vag, who is no Elizabethan, felt as though all the eyes in the audience were on him. Poor even at after-dinner speaking, he was so embarrassed that he didn't hear a word about Eugene O'Neill...