Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kansas, predominantly rural, has grown about 25% in population since 1906, but has lost some 30% of its doctors. Half the doctors then practiced in country districts; today only 28% of them do. Dr. Murphy says that the average medical student is too poor to buy equipment and set himself up in a small town. He is also afraid of becoming "medically isolated," losing touch with the latest scientific methods. With 70 Kansas communities wanting doctors, Dr. Murphy feels that "isolation" is the real problem...
...listening to him: the audience had spotted Paderewski in the hall. Another time, on his way to the concert, he was accosted by a Salvation Army lassie who wanted him to give it all up. "Don't do it, brother!" she cried. "Don't lead those poor people into sin . . . with the arts of Satan...
...story contrasts the characters and careers of a detective and a crook, both born in poor New York Italian families. The detective (Victor Mature) is reasonably intelligent, persistent, brave and ill-paid. The criminal (Richard Conte) is shrewd, unregenerate, reckless, vain, easy with the money and the girls. Conceding that the crook is much the more obviously interesting character, the movie grants him the bulk of its attention. But that is all it grants him. Without ever quite getting mealymouthed, it builds up an honest and impressive case against...
...Poor Resistless Heart." From the money young Washington made at surveying, he bought more land, and took to gambling at cards. He accompanied his sick brother Lawrence on a trip to Barbados and picked up a case of smallpox which marred his face for life, but also made him immune to the disease that periodically sliced through his ranks during the Revolution...
...Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart...