Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limit hunting season. In most years-this year so far has been disastrous for the hunters because of patch ice-fishermen and farmers from the Atlantic provinces can hope to make from $600 to $1,000 for their brief moonlighting stint as swilers and thereby double their meager incomes. For Canada, the hunt results in $1,500,000 in annual exports...
Wilson spoke informally last night at a meeting at the Graduate School of Education. The meeting was called to discuss the School's role in the implementation of the Dunlop and Wilson Reports. Wilson cited the meager attendance--26 people--as illustrating the University community's apathy to the program suggested in the Wilson Report...
...then, is it necessary to set up a shield against the Chinese with their meager resources? And if it is essential, why consider bargaining
...wrath," but no one can say to what precursor sage both men owed the saying. It remains a mystery, moreover, why some civilizations are rich in proverbs and others are not. Why did the Incas, the Mayans and nearly all the Indian tribes of North America produce such a meager crop of proverbs, when the Spaniards, the Samoans, the Arabs and the Chinese were minting them by the thousands...
...much publicized mess in the back offices of brokerage houses, which are tangled in paper, has done little to inspire confidence in the effectiveness of Wall Street's management. , In addition, the fast rise of prices of new issues, many of which have climbed to premiums despite meager or non-existent earnings, is a symptom of dangerous speculative fever...