Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss. He had one meager item of consolation. The man who beat him was neither an independent, a reformer, nor a Republican upstart. He was John V. Kenny, onetime Hague lieutenant, whose own father, Eddie, had taught Frank Hague the ropes and got him his first political job as a constable more than 40 years ago. Young John Kenny became boss of the Second Ward. Then, a year ago, Hague had tossed him out because John was getting "too popular." Said Kenny frankly: "If Hague had not thrown me out, I probably would still be a member of the machine...
...Kathenas chei to pono tou-everyone has his wound,' say the Greeks. Greece is bleeding from a million wounds. It is a country of refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless...
John Franklin Goucher had the meager salary of a Methodist minister to live on, but the girl he had decided to marry happened to be rich. "Young man," her father demanded, "do you want to marry my daughter for her money?" "No, sir," replied Goucher, "but I certainly could find...
...have reckoned that of the 5000 odd undergraduates, some 4200 cat in the Dining Halls. Dedducting 300, who, because of illness or cowardice, do not appear, I feel that 3900 daily diners is a fairly accurate estimate. Feeding this multitude on the College's meager meat supply has resulted in a meatless catastrophe, and yet, in the confines of the University itself, there is a solution. I have evolved a plan whereby all undergraduates and a part of the physically handicapped people of Greater Boston can be generously...
...sure this influence is eliminated the United States must continue its educational program in Germany for 10 to 20 years; 150 educators should be added to the "meager" staff of 125 already in Germany; and the present budget of $10,000,000 should be doubled, he said...