Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medical knowledge of prevention is even more meager. About all doctors know is that: 1) flies, mosquitoes, and perhaps rats can carry the virus; 2) healthy human carriers are common; 3) the dis ease is almost certainly transmitted through the mouth as well as the nose; 4) children's tonsils should not be removed during hot summer months...
...same reason, Popes' lives are written chiefly after their deaths. The biography of a living Pope is officially meager. Pius XII is no exception. But his biographical skeleton is important for the context of history it reveals...
...approves his purchase of the Blue (it will probably have no objection), he will have to sell WMCA (no one can own two radio stations in a city). Ed Noble says he views radio broadcasting as a public-service enterprise ("I'd be perfectly happy with meager profits"). He believes that it can do "tremendous good or bad in the direction of teaching people government, education, private enterprise, and democracy as I understand it." He would like to make the Blue "a sort of New York Times of the industry...
India's health budget (less than $30,000,000 in 1939), like the national income ($20 per capita), is meager, but Dr. Grant says that disconnected administration and overlapping agencies prevent the Indians from getting even $30,000,000 worth of medical service. Dr. Grant believes that only a beginning can be made in a public health program at present (e.g., by establishing a few school health services), that real health progress must wait until India's 88% illiteracy rate is reduced, since much of India's bad health and insanitary practices are due to the ignorance...
...Audience Meager...