Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hialeah, three dog-tracks and one jai-alai (Cuban handball) fronton in the Miami gambling area, betters on a single "poor Monday" last week wagered $800,000; since the winter season opened had poured in a record $25,000,000 (including the takes at both Hialeah and Tropical Park horsetracks...
...islands by Royal Dutch Co. Nazi ships at Curaçao are now forced to anchor outside Willemstad's drawbridged harbor, at remote bays around the island. In the tropical climate, with next to nothing to do, the men's morale has rotted. Food is poor and scanty, water precious. Crews with edible cargoes have eaten them (one ship had nothing but oranges and lemons). The men receive eight guilders ($4.24) per month to spend on shore, plus 20 paper marks good aboard ship (for barber, laundry, etc.). The one man ashore in Curaçao who might...
...point decided the meet for the visitors last year, and the Peroymen are determined to get the full measure of revenge. With ace sabreman Tom Wright returning to the squad temporarily, the prospects are good, but the epee team will be an uncertain factor after its poor showing last Saturday against Brown...
...parents is able to profit by higher education, while on the other hand there are many able students whose family resources are meager. Those who stand to benefit by advanced training should be sorted out from every economics class, say the three theorists. The remaining young people, rich and poor alike, ought to be provided with a broad training to fit them for citizenship in a democracy, but should not waste their time in protracted studies. In other words, there ought to be a minimum schooling for all, but extended education only for those who have the mental, even...
...good, the high frequencies being very fuzzy. In other words, the needle (from one case--not too good a test, it's true) seems to be good for only two hundred sides--and that at dire risk to your records. Either the needle is bad, the record surface poor--or quite possibly both. Cactus needles look like a far safer...