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Word: meagerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, other schools, such as Cal Tech, provide their students with a plethora of software, but Harvard is much too poor to do that. It is obvious that with the meager $22,000 that each student is paying to go here, there is no way the school could spare the few hundred dollars needed to put software on all its computers...

Author: By Andrew Chen, | Title: Antiquated Harvard | 10/29/1991 | See Source »

...plays throughout the game, the Crimson backs came up huge, securing first-downs (23 for Harvard, a meager 11 for Princeton) and eating time off the clock. And give the backs credit for the Crimson's impressive nine-for-17 third-down conversion rate...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Hirsh: Leaping Tall Buildings in Single Bounds | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...tale begins, spent a whopping $1 billion for the right to telecast major league games for four years. Now, after sustaining huge losses from last year's abbreviated postseason, the network seems to wish the sport would just go away. Regular-season telecasts have been reduced to a meager handful. Pregame shows during the league championship series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the stands for human-interest angles (and a few extra female viewers). The camerawork has been solid, but the announcing just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television No Hits but Plenty of Bobbles | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...deny that the differences in funding make a mockery of the nation's ideal. Fifth-grade teacher Madelyn Cimaglia has no doubt of the wonders that could be worked in San Antonio's Edgewood school district if more funds were available. Like thousands of her peers, Cimaglia supplements meager classroom supplies with her own money, buying her students books such as Alice in Wonderland and Charlotte's Web. "Our kids would fly if we had resources similar to the rich districts," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do The Poor Deserve Bad Schools? | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...less than two-and-a-half games, Giardi had already thrown for four TD's, matching the Crimson's meager total...

Author: By Dan Jacobowitz and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Top-Rated Giardi Unlikely Against Rams on Saturday | 10/11/1991 | See Source »

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