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Still, an unprosperous northern childhood and those years of observing mental illness – and the world’s responses to it – continue to serve him at the age of 52.

From The Guardian Nov. 2, 2018

Child’s cookbook, Wheaton said, is a ‘‘slice of life as lived by unprosperous New Englanders in the 1820s and ’30s.’’

From New York Times Oct. 29, 2015

He’s not unprosperous, but he’s not very prosperous; he’s not going make out well off.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2012

Basic cause: The unprosperous situation in real estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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