Word: meager
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others objected to Mr. Haynes' adding to his meager salary of $5,000 by what should be the handsome returns of his syndicated articles and book. Lloyd George, who attempted a similar feat while in office, was compelled by public criticism to promise the proceeds of his memoirs to charity?and finally abandoned the project...
...reported remedy for cancer developed by Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, seems, on the basis of the meager information at hand, to be the most promising of all recent " cures" that have been suggested (TIME, May 19). Dr. Bell's specific is a solution of colloidal lead (a colloid is a gluelike, noncrystalline organic substance that will not pass through a membrane), which appears to have a marked effect on malignant growths like cancer. Dr. Bell has been experimenting with it for 18 years and has recently employed it in 50 cases given up by surgeons as hopeless...
...meager, mysterious, ubiquitous and taciturn Colonel Edward M. House, about to leave on his annual trip to Europe, is credited with being commander-in-chief of a campaign to make John W. Davis the next Democratic Presidential nominee...
...active cases, ranging in age from 3 months to 40 years, which received three or four applications at intervals, 15 per cent were promptly cured, the spasms disappearing entirely, 70 per cent were relieved, and 15 per cent remained unchanged. It is too early and the data are too meager to make definite predictions of the success of X-ray treatment. The doctors are unable to give a rational explanation of the result, but do not believe it to be due to any direct germ-killing power of the rays...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...