Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr., In announcing Tanis's appointment, said that "Yale is most fortunate to have attracted a new librarian who in a short time has developed the enthusiastic confidence of the faculty at Harvard and who has developed a library from meager beginnings to a modern collection...
...pretensions keep his wife Nora and his ambitious daughter Sara in poverty. Melody will not tend bar--he has hired a barkeep. His daughter must wait on table while he drinks away the meager profits, and he keeps the establishment in debt through the extravagant upkeep of his greatest joy, a white thoroughbred mare...
Most students at Harvard and Radcliffe don't go to bed until 1 or 2 a.m. Neither, so it seems, do the professors; course offerings at this early hour are meager. Mathematics for non-mathematicians (Nat Sci 116) allows students to bridge the two cultures without wetting their feet in a torrent of labs. One of the key problems in modern thought, "Value and Explanation in Social Theory," and some of the key modern thinkers--Kierkagaard, Neitzsche, Dewey, and Mannheim--structure Soc Sci 115. For those whose roomates are so lovable that there is no outlet for hostilities...
...European circus acts and other diversions. A 4,000-ton ship keels over at the pier in Barcelona, and one exciting scene has Hayworth, Cardinale and Wayne all dangling from the rigging of a burning tent. The only serious mishap to befall Circus World is Cinerama, which magnifies a meager tale beyond all reasonable proportions. To sit through the film is something like holding an elephant on your lap for two hours and 15 minutes. You can hardly measure what you have there, but it leaves a definite impression: it's big, it's warmhearted, and tons...
...granted, some can be handed out to racially integrated Southern colleges. > Eight Negro colleges and the Atlanta University Center (consisting of six independent schools, including top-rated Morehouse and Spelman colleges, that share academic resources) received $13 million. The Ford Foundation waived the usual matching requirement, considering the meager fund-raising capability of Negro colleges. The foundation also insisted that the money be spent on academic improvements, such as fellowships and visiting professorships, rather than on physical facilities. > The biggest grant of all, $25 million, went to New York University, largest private university in the U.S., to help solve some...