Word: meagerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years from 6 to 18. Pa Jones insists on running his elder son and daughter according to the rules of his youthful days. There is the pleading for the use of the family car, the warning to come home before twelve, and the troubles of a son's meager allowance that hearken back to days not far remote for many of us now. After continued rebukes for his nagging by his own old mother, and his 17-year-old son's timely first-aid treatment of a little brother, Pa Jones finally softens up, rewarding the boy with a secondhand...
...mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...
...Christian homes the Sunday movie does a more thorough job." In a large part of the world, the State has taken over the Sunday School's function of ABC-teaching. As for religious instruction, "the average Sunday School is taught by an untrained staff; its equipment is woefully meager; the curriculum is neither scientifically sound, comprehensive, nor sufficiently centred in the child's experience; the textbooks are biased in attitude and limited in scope; the pupils' attendance is haphazard, and the time spent by the average child in the average Protestant Sunday School is something less than...
...your finger on the crux of the matter when you state that the University contribution "is very meager if non-existent." You state "it is obvious that the entire annual income of the Buckley fund and the Cambridge Aid was not used." I agree if Cambridge Aid (allocated by the Administration from general funds for Cambridge students) amounts to any substantial sum. But if the source for the latter is the Buckley fund, the only ethical way out would be to abolish the term Cambridge Aid and identify all the money distributed with the Buckley fund or at least that...