Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They were often discouraged by the experts, and they failed frequently-only to rebound. So eager were they to test their ideas that many of them dropped out of college, though dropping out is by no means a requisite for making a million. They made tremendous sacrifices, taking meager salaries at first and pouring the profits back into their business. Many did not marry until they were well into their 30s, and then picked women who would put up with long hours of work. "The young millionaire," says Arthur W. Carlsberg, 32, who has made $5,000,000 by selecting...
...TIME greeted the return of Vladimir Horowitz with a meager 150 words. Yet in the same issue you poured no fewer than 4,500 words on rock 'n' roll. Shame...
Then I say, maybe it is only hatred in Norman's chest. Maybe it is only a stockpile of frustration--the frustration of an ego that grows hungrier with every feeding, of a heterosexual in an era of pan-sexuality; frustration with language too meager to ciutch at ideas his mind is shaping, with mind too meager to clutch at ideas he'd like to shape, with creative ambitions that far exceed what greatness he can hope to claim, with material that will not yield its secrets, like rocky soil intractable to a battered plough...
...million since 1957 and thus shaved its interest and service charges by $7,000,000. Nonetheless, single-year totals can be misleading, as the ICC examiners took pains to make clear. They found that over the last decade the Pennsy's return on invested capital had been a meager 1.28% and the Central's 1.84%-against 10.5% for mining and 7% for metal producers. The railroads' combined operating losses for the same period: $18 million...
...found in the library. The William Scott Ferguson Prize of books goes to the writer of the outstanding History essay written in sophomore tutorial. The Dante prize gives $100 to a graduate student writing on the life or work of Dante. But the rewards of practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed...