Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Instead the area, generally termed the "Hill Country", is one of the more beautiful parts of Texas packed with culture and "warm material" for the imagination to feed on: it does not suffer from the dryness that afflicts other parts of the state. The starkness resides, instead, in the meager conditions under which these children must live...
...poetry that appears contradicts the commonplace theory that poverty makes people meager in spirit as well. On the contrary these children reveal their imagination with honesty and innocence. Many of them-even the first graders-must miss days of school in order to work picking crops to help the family out financially...
...meager dreams of Funk, and his fellow rats, might seen ludicrous, but they are not to be laughed at. Perhaps Funk is the progenitor of the next evolutionary stage of mankind--Home Mallus, a deevolved species whose horizons are no longer than the distance from Woolworth's to Orange Julius...
...shot an unimpressive 31 percent from the field and sunk only three of 11 free throws during the first half, enough to give the cagers a 19-16 edge going into the locker room. While Crimson shooting may have been bad. Army shooting was worse: The cadets hit a meager 26 percent and scored on only two of six foul shot attempts...
...tenured Black faculty members. What has not been revealed to the public is the fact that the Law School has hired a greater percentage of Black faculty than has the University as a whole. The Law School does not deserve commendation for the proportion of its Black-faculty--a meager 2.89 percent--but Harvard University as a whole certainly deserves condemnation since its faculty, is composed of barely 1.02 percent Blacks. Out of over 2900 faculty members, only 30 are Black. Worse yet, these official Harvard University figures show that the number of Black faculty has decreased in recent years...