Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cliffies' lack of interest in kitchenwork was discovered from the meager response to an ad recruiting Cliffies as dining hall workers in the Harvard Houses. The ad first ran in the Calendar in mid-October...
Most successful of these is five-year-old Chesham Amalgamations & Investments Ltd. Finding a proper fit for its 400 clients is arduous work, normally involving research into 4,000 prospects annually and resulting in a meager three mergers a month. Explains Chesham Director Nicholas Stacey: "Our job is to explore the field in which our client is interested and find the most suitable company for his needs. Then we negotiate and put a valuation on it for him. Finally, we stamp on our 'Good Housekeeping seal...
...this, she is not unfeminine. She and her friends spend their meager clothes-allowance in Tel Aviv, not content with the kibbutz's anachronistic styles. Every night she deliberates over what to wear to the evening meal. She passes long hours after work playing with her year-old nephew...
...tributaries of Bristol Bay to procreate the catches of future years. Alaskan fishermen, who caught 64 million salmon last year, will take in no more than 24 million in all of 1967. For Bristol Bay fishermen, this means an average income for the season of $1,320, or a meager fifth of what they make in a good year...
...apartheid and to come to know the Negro, however condescending or belated the effort may appear to be. It is partially for this reason that he has made the subject of Negro slavery his obsession for the last 20 years. His fascination grew when he researched the meager documents of the only slave revolt in American history, which occurred about 20 miles from his Virginia home...