Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain of horror, her mind crumbles into delirium. When she recovers, Theodosia goes to the country to live with her aunt. Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants of the hounds with which Theodosia's uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children and the strong...
...appreciation of his life and work, emphasizing his influence on the education of the country at large. During the last two years his influence, as well as President Eliot's leadership in the moulding of opinion on questions of public importance, has continued unabated. I venture to close this meager account of Mr. Eliot's life by quoting the paragraphs written for the CRIMSON two years...
...Spanish Government gets 30% of the gross receipts; therefore, when the expenses are paid the members' reward is very meager. I met some of the best known Spanish musicians, including De Falla, who lives at Granada, within sight of the Moorish palaces and Alloniz. An interesting young school of composers is to be found in Spain...
Starting with five men who answered the initial call for gridiron aspirants at Trinity last fall, Coach Clark built up a squad which ranged between 15 and 20 players throughout the season. With this meager material the new mentor produced a well coached and capable eleven which won its most important games, those with Wesleyan and Norwich. The latter contest was won by a 10 to 9 score after the losers had downed the Tufts team by a 14 to 0 margin. The win over Norwich was well merited and the high spot in the Trinity season...
...physical department, puzzled, is seeking some keen observer who can chart and explain this sudden disappearance of high living, this rise of ascetic and meager lunches. The men at Hemenway wonder whether such a spectator is not even now writing a book on the subject. Its title, of course, will be "The Weigh of All Flesh...