Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park will have the nucleus of a solid hitting club (with a .300 hitter at number eight in Serrano) and a strong fielding club that will prevent careless runs. The big question in the Crimson's plans is its meager pitching staff. Of course, pitching was the big mystery last spring also and the hurlers turned out to be the best in the Eastern League...
...plastic target rich in hydrogen atoms, the Berkeley team was able to dissect the laboratory-produced cosmic rays. The collisions fragmented the nitrogen nuclei into every element lighter than nitrogen in the periodic table. By analyzing the results of this and similar experiments, physicists hope to bolster their meager store of knowledge about not only the atomic nucleus but also the pulsars and supernovae in which cosmic rays are thought to be born. "It opens up a whole new way of studying nuclear structure," said Berkeley Physicist Harry Heckman...
...ances. A reformed alcoholic gone on to the Governor's mansion and the Senate, Hughes never got off the ground as a presidential candidate. His Gallup poll rating was 2%, and even this meager rating was suspect since he is often confused with Tycoon Howard Hughes...
...Left Bank lycéée of Buffon, built for 900 students in 1887, now has some 3,000. A lycée in Normandy was recently closed for a week while exterminators tried to root out a plague of lice. Laboratories often contain only meager quantities of the chemicals needed for experiments...
...Fifth Dynasty, a period of the Old Kingdom that lasted from about 2450 to 2290 B.C., is a puzzling blank in Egyptology. Little of its art has survived; its pyramids were jerry-built and unprepossessing; the surviving clues to its history are so meager that few of its pharaohs can even be identified. One who can be was King Ny-user-ra, who ruled from about 2370 to 2360 B.C. Few statues of Ny-user-ra were known; one of them was in the Cairo Museum. It gave no hint of his appearance, since head and torso were missing...