Word: meagerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the lid blew off. Aroused, so the police said, by relief workers' complaints at their own meager salaries, a mob of 10,000 jobless poured out of the Falls Road district and marched on the city poorhouse in an effort to force the Ulster government to increase their dole. A gang of toughs discovered a Free State truck loaded with cases of Guinness's stout from Dublin. In no time the air was thick with stout bottles. Store windows were smashed, dairies and greengrocers looted, bonfires lighted. Hand to hand fighting broke out at several places...
...Harvard Debating Council has met many difficulties in arranging intercollegiate debates. Lack of funds has made trips to other colleges practically impossible and meager audiences have discouraged intercollegiate debates when held here. The University Council is no longer an integral part of undergraduate life, a re-direction of Harvard debating will be necessary to make...
...turned out en masse for their first--and last--college football rally. The members of the team, grouped together like so many rubber plants, were seated on a stage at the end of the hall, together with several fiendishly loyal and enthusiastic old "H" men, who glowered at the meager group of undergraduates, irritated because the whole University had not put in an appearance...
Yale men and all colleges may feel a certain satisfaction in the figures Princeton has published. But they must not attach too much importance to them by failing to balance the numbers of huge incomes against the meager which make an $18,000 average. Nor must they fail to consider the conditions within the homes and the standards of living which develop under our systems of education. Unquestionably Princeton has done as much for her sons in these respects. perhaps more. Nevertheless a consideration for the vagaries such an investigation entails will serve to illuminate its limitations. --Yale Daily News...
...meager merger announcement gave no details-not even the new corporate name or directorate. No information has been forthcoming about the reasons for the merger. But the implications are obvious; McCann gains many valuable accounts including Congoleum-Nairn, Bon Ami, Valspar, Dictaphone, Agfa-Ansco, Dill Tobacco; and Erickson, which had these accounts among others, gains service facilities of which it has long felt the need. Erickson had only one office (in Manhattan), while McCann has seven in the U. S., three in Europe, four affiliated in Canada. McCann Co., headed by Founder Harrison King McCann, is the larger...