Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Statistics don't alter the implication of game results. Dartmouth's leading scorer, All-Ivy soccer player Bill Swoyer, can boast a meager 8 points...
...problem is that the discipline of chemistry has outgrown the meager number of lower level chemistry courses that are now offered. The interests of the students who take these courses have become so divergent that they cannot be handled by the present basic sequence of chemistry courses: Chem 1 or 6, Chem 20, and Chem 60. The pre-med finds much of the material that is presented irrelevant to his main interest -- bio-chemistry. The chem concentrator is held back by the large number of relatively uninterested pre-meds in his classes. The instructors are faced with the problem...
Lindsay is the first to admit that the air and the streets are still dirty, the city's sources of new income meager, the ghettos wallowing in misery. What makes him different is that he really believes that something can be done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies...
Easy Terms. For all three men, the Federal Government supplied the funds that enabled them to start their own businesses. With finances too meager for them to qualify for ordinary bank loans, they borrowed their capital on easier terms (51% interest, up to 15 years to repay) than many a blue-chip corporation could arrange amid today's tight-money pinch. The loans came from the Small Business Administration under Title IV of the 1964 antipoverty law, which aims at helping the poor in depressed neighborhoods to become self-employed and to put struggling little firms on a sounder...
...Stevens a few lines later by mentioning "A jar in wilderness upon a hill." Unfortunately Mr. Kaitz, whatever his intent, has failed to echo Steven's typically smooth movement, so different from the ragged rhythms above. Nor could these strings of monosyllables occur in his pentameter: "His cause was meager and his flag was thin...