Word: meager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commuters and married students untouched. Why such a distinction should exist is not clear. A still more vital objection to the $100,000 tithe is that a rent rise hurts the veteran more than a boost in tuition. For an increase in rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal savings, while a tuition boost can be absorbed by surplus eligibility time. Even the recently voted increase in subsistence allotments, which will almost exactly cover the rent jump, should not blind College officials to the fact that balance-sheet...
...little bewildered. His wife had divorced him (with his consent) and remarried while he was in prison, and he often went to see her and his 14-year-old son. He worked in various jobs as a sales correspondent, collector and bookkeeper. A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a picture, Call Northside 777 (see CINEMA...
...tangible benefits as well. As last year's evil winds from Siberia had helped the Kremlin's cause by promoting misery and despair, so this year's Atlantic zephyrs favored European recovery. France's wheat crop promised to more than double last year's meager yield of 3.5 million tons. French hydroelectric power was more abundant than at any time since the end of the war. Almost everywhere coal rations were proving adequate, and coal black marketeers were going broke...
Pittsburgh had a coal crisis. Nearby mines had plenty of coal piled above ground, but barges could not carry it down the ice-clogged Monongahela River. Pittsburghers scurried furiously from dealer to dealer, hauled home their meager findings in buckets and family autos...
...time when nearly everyone in this nation is feeling the pressure of exorbitant prices, the Congress has enacted a bill that is pitifully inadequate. . . . The meager authority contained in the bill will be utilized to the fullest extent by the Government, but the public must not be misled into believing that this bill will do the job. I would be shirking my responsibility if I did not protest...