Search Details

Word: meagerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...afterwards withdraw to the shelter of the senior common room. Sometimes students are included at the high table, but the resulting haphazard intercourse with the staff is of minor worth. Often the guest of the evening discusses some question before an unrestricted audience, but student attendance is usually meager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINING AND DINING | 11/16/1934 | See Source »

...Meager Job. The Governor of New Hampshire gets a salary of only $5,000, has to supply his own executive mansion. For the past ten years he has also been a Republican. After last week's primary the man who seemed slated for one of the most meager U. S. gubernatorial jobs was Public Service Commissioner H. Styles Bridges of Concord. His Democratic opponent: John L. Sullivan (no kin) of Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickings & Choosings | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...have only yourself to blame." The Army bought the flimsy plane, appropriated $150 for maintenance, and in 90 minutes the Wrights made "Benny" Foulois the Army's No. 1 pilot. First year's repair bills amounted to $450 of which $300 came out of Pilot Foulois' meager wages. Steadily "Benny" Foulois rose with the new service, landed in France in 1918 commanding the A. E. F. air service. Three years ago he was made Chief of Air Corps. Exulted a high-ranking brother officer: "Benny is 99% for the Air Corps and 1% for himself. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: No. 1 Flyer Flayed | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot, took off from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...other countries? Naturally they want to make money by lending it and with the bond market stagnant and relatively few good bonds available except at low yields, the banks are looking toward 6 per cent, loans as promising them a chance to overcome these last three years of meager return...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Previous | 334 | 335 | 336 | 337 | 338 | 339 | 340 | 341 | 342 | 343 | 344 | 345 | 346 | 347 | 348 | 349 | 350 | 351 | 352 | 353 | 354 | Next