Word: meager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already humbled the Engineers once this season, but only after a hotly contested battle. The final score of 4 to 3 indicates the equality of the two teams and points to a very close contest this afternoon. In the last game a seventh-inning Tech rally failed by the meager margin of one run to tie the score and send the game to extra innings...
...report of the first Princetonian workout for Saturday's game with the CRIMSON was received at a late hour last night. Judging from the meager laconic statements of the dispatch, optimism reigns high in the Tiger camp. The CRIMSON squad has made its already rigorous training program more intensive than ever, for reports from scouts in Nassau have told of the power and aggressiveness of the Princetonian outfit...
Over the radio the National Broadcasting Company honored Franz Drdla, composer of such lush violin music as Souvenir, Serenade, Vision, Madrigal. Drdla is 60 now, eking out a meager living in Vienna by making tenpenny tunes...
Students who feel the reins of faculty supervision somewhat harsh and undemocratic, who stand in dread of the possibility of compulsory chapel, and who protest loudly at the meager allowance of cuts afforded by the department heads, might sleep a little easier and enjoy life a little more thoroughly after reading a few excerpts from the Harvard College regulations of 1734. Some of the most interesting--when viewed from this distant perspective--follow...
Among the tribulations of schoolteachers, that most commonly current is the meager salary attached to the profession, the stingy pensions administered after long years of service. Last week, at a meeting of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, it was announced that pensions and retiring allowances distributed during the last year amounted...