Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice that everything was going to be all right. I noticed that when anyone did anything, whether it was lowering a boat or just speaking, they did it with all their force. The one unendurable thing was to do nothing. I derived great comfort from expending energy on this poor woman...
Nelson threw us a rope and we made fast. We were then towed about for two hours. They tried first to salvage an empty lifeboat but the bottom had been stove in. They then picked up one poor woman who was clinging to a piece of wood, and an unconscious man who was starfished on a hatch board. He was covered with engine oil and had a great bloody eye. It was my friend and cabin steward, Dickson...
...lifeboat which, even so, was overladen. I didn't realize how cold I was until I tried to talk and found that my jaws were stiff. There were a. number of Lascar seamen on board; they crouched on the bottom of the boat paralysed with cold and fear. Poor devils, they longed for the sun of Bengal; it wasn't their war anyway...
Conditions for this week-end are only fair in the Eastern Slope region, but good at Stowe. Conditions for This Week-end Cannon Mt. (Tramway) Fair 17 in. Conway Poor 3 in. Dartmouth Region Poor 3 in. Franconia Notch Fair 13 in. Fryoburg Good 5 in. North Conway Poor 3 in. Pinkham Notch Fair 12 in. Stowo (Mt. Mansfield) Good 30 in. WatervILLe Good 7 in. Wolfeboro Good 5 in. Laurentian Mts. Good...
...Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...