Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game was a clean one, with only one penalty being meted out, but the ice was rough, slowing up both squads. The Hoddermen never became completely disorganized, but poor passing and weak shooting spoiled the few chances they had at the Toronio cage. They were on the short end of a 3 to 1 count at the end of the first period and never threatened seriously thereafter...
Actually, this border Scot had already packed five noteworthy careers into his amazingly versatile life, was fully equipped with energy and brains to start another at 60. A poor boy (his father was a Presbyterian parson), he had put himself through Glasgow University and Oxford with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...
...first time that Herr Thyssen, the sorely disillusioned "angel" of National Socialism, had so publicly recorded his sympathy for the poor of any country. And as he continued the interview, it developed that his chief concern was not so much for what the Nazis are doing to the poor of Germany as it was for what they are doing to German men of property. That is plenty...
...price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre...