Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic Press in the United States has been doing a wonderful work with meager resources and under many other even greater handicaps...
Hundreds of thousands were demobilized and there was neither food, clothing nor employment for them. The help given by the Allies was relatively meager; the situation was desperate. From this moment the mark began its long toboggan. Then came the publication of the peace terms, which caused consternation throughout the country: Germany, ruined, defeated, with an internal debt anchoring her head to the ground, had to find an enormous sum for the Allies...
...camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...based on absurd misinformation, the announcements are usually premature or published by some enterprising reporter before the methods have been scientifically investigated or published in medical literature. A number of such remedies, recently reported, may or may not be in this class, but facts at hand are so meager that they can merely be listed, and must await scientific confirmation...
...According to interviews attributed to Dr. Muncie upon his return, while his patient was said to be a European prince, it was expressly denied that it was Don Jaime. A meager description of his methods of " finger surgery " was given, whereby he claims to " reconstruct" the eustachian tube by manipulation through the mouth while the patient is under anaesthesia...