Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Such a program would broaden the academic possibilities of the Afro-American Studies Department on the undergraduate level as well as enhance already existing programs. The lack of such facilities has made prospective faculty reluctant to come to Harvard as instructors in the department, especially in light of the meager salaries which Harvard offers...
TEACHING. In elementary education, 85% of the schoolteachers are women, but only 21% of the principals. In high schools, the percentage of female principals drops to 3%. And if a woman wishes to become a college president, she is advised to become a nun: almost all of the meager 1% who make it are heads of Catholic institutions. In 1970, women constituted 20% of college and university faculties: 33% of the instructors were women, 20% of the assistant professors, 15% of the associate professors and 9% of the full professors. At Harvard, where women make up about...
...enough to attempt the longer distances, but Whittingham refused to push him. Gradually building the horse's stamina, he ran him in only five races in 1970. All were short distances, and though Ack Ack won four of his five starts, his winnings for the year totaled a meager $59,775. Aware of Ack Ack's money-winning potential, Whittingham's fellow trainers were perplexed at his patience. Said one: "Why the hell is Charlie sitting on that horse? If I had him, I'd race him twice a month...
...match-up of the Aquarians and their teams-little old Miami (the Cinderella team) and big bad Dallas (the fiercest force in the West)-has stirred more than the usual frenzy among the nation's pro-football freaks. In Miami, where attendance at home games averaged a meager 34,687 just two seasons ago, more than 78,000 screaming, hanky-waving "Dol-fans" jammed the Orange Bowl last week to watch their beloved Dolphins score a stunning...
...street and eat them. Soon afterward, he says, he found a weeping Chicano family that had been cheated of its wages. "The next thing you know," he muses, "I had them on my hands and began scrounging for them. One thing led to another." Ferree lives on a meager pension he receives from his World War I service in the Signal Corps. What will happen to his charges when he is gone? "Maybe somebody will take it over, maybe not," he says. "I don't think about that. I worry about one cleft palate and one hungry stomach...