Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a newspaper the program drew meager headlines; more exciting as immediate news had been the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city, of June 24 as the convention date. Dopesters had picked Chicago; GOP wiseacres wanted to meet in borderline Illinois. But Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly promised a mingy $125,000 to meet convention expenses; more eloquently Philadelphia's Mayor Robert Lamberton promised to lay $200,000 on the line. Money talked...
...three argue that brains and dollars don't always go together. Not every child of well-to-do parents is able to profit by higher education, while on the other hand there are many able students whose family resources are meager. Those who stand to benefit by advanced training should be sorted out from every economics class, say the three theorists. The remaining young people, rich and poor alike, ought to be provided with a broad training to fit them for citizenship in a democracy, but should not waste their time in protracted studies. In other words, there ought...