Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cram Courses. Foundation grants of $363,000 will pay for some basic necessities. Faculty salary ceilings will be raised from $6,500 to $8,000, to slow down a high turnover rate. The library will be expanded beyond its meager list of 33,000 titles. Brown's share of the job will be to supply what money cannot buy: higher academic standards...
...Morgan State College, a Negro school in Maryland, Scranton got 720 votes, Rockefeller 323 and Goldwater, a nonadvocate of the civil rights bill, a meager...
...Illinois Central Railroad had chosen to establish a division headquarters there. The school itself was a mediocre state teachers' college, whose sense of the future was typified by an earlier S.I.U. president whose pride it was to send back money to the legislature from the school's meager appropriation. Even Morris did not come with a big reputation. The son of an auto insurance salesman, he was born in Little Egypt, was professor of speech at Ohio State when he got the offer to head S.I.U...
...immediate cause of death was anemia: the Reporter simply ran out of money. Never able to pay its own way, the tabloid managed to avert death only by desperate expedients. At the end, more than half the Reporter's staff was still unsalaried and subsisting entirely on meager strike benefits: up to $79 a week. Even its offset press was leased for a token $10 a year from the benevolent International Typographical Union...
...unmistakable conviction that something must be done at once. He refuses to reject any idea, no matter how implausible it sounds, until it has been tried. As an example, Harrington cellent and creative cooks, for instance, could be paid to teach other poor housewives how to use the meager food they receive. The cooks would get a little much-needed money and the poor would eat better...