Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign trade situation is as discouraging as the domestic. During the first six months of 1928, U. S. locomotive works had shipped to foreign countries only 75 locomotives. Even this meager figure represented a rapidly falling market. On Aug. 1, 1928, U. S. locomotive builders were constructing 73 locomotives for foreign roads. On Aug. 1, 1927, they had been building 209 such locomotives, and on Aug. 1, 1926, there were 517 U. S. locomotives under construction for the export trade. Thus the 1928 export production has shrunk to about one-seventh of its 1926 figure...
...have had a conventional small command in the Civil War. As it happened, he was drifting from farmer pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...
...Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been in meager circumstances...
Such methods as those to which Mr. Cohen has stooped are cheap, idle and ineffectual. They are unbecoming enough to anyone in political argument but especially so in his case; as publicity manager of the "Harvard Thomas-for-President Club" he can ill-afford with his meager following of a hundred, to give the impression that his party sanctions the use of such weapons...
Reason: money-it being notorious that the pay of a Cabinet Minister* has proved too meager to support the extravagant whims* of Lord Birkenhead, who was. before he took Cabinet rank, "the highest feed barrister in England...