Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...
...girl representing his sickness, a priest who stood for Capitalism, a boy with a fever of 105°. They all made the Goof cry: "I want to resign." But at the moment when he was most desperately disillusioned, Destiny gave him quite a cute smile. So the poor Goof started all over again...
...daughter Dorothy heard him. She became an evangelist, too. Last month, aged 75, when crossing a Manhattan street against a red light, Frank Clarry was killed by Negro Motorist Moe Crawford. Moe was charged with homicide, clapped into the Tombs. Dorothy Clarry got the charge dismissed. Said she: "The poor fellow wasn't to blame." She visited his wife and four children, found Mrs. Crawford ailing, all five hungry. For Mrs. Crawford she got a doctor; for the family, food...
Ohio State likes to be called a Service Station. Most of those who drive up-the sons and daughters of poor farmers, salesmen, teachers, storekeepers, railroaders, small-town doctors-are not particularly well prepared for college. But the university, compelled by law to admit any graduate of an approved Ohio high school, welcomes them all, tries to make even jalopies go. Boys, job-minded, usually study teaching, farming, business, welding, engineering (a four-year course), veterinary medicine. Less than a fifth enroll in the arts college. Chief service the university performs for girls: to introduce them to eligible husbands...
Importance of the questionnaire was stressed by Raymond E. Dennett '36, graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House. He stated, "From all evidence at the Brooks House information desk, there seems no question that the housing of graduate students is poor, inadequate, and expensive. There is apparently no decent standard between boarding houses on prices or service. A survey of this sort is badly needed to find out what exactly the situation...