Word: meagerness
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...public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager bank account of some ?450, most of which he spent on a local music-hall dancer...
...fantastic kind of Calvinist logic: He has been sent to rid the world of greed and sensual pleasure; to do so he must have money. Travelling up and down the Ohio he accomplishes all by enticing middle-aged widows to marry him; just before the wedding he acquires their meager fortune. Then he kills them. But when he marries the mother of the two children in hopes of getting the stolen money, he happily fails...
Canada's fastest-growing town this week is the Saskatchewan farm hamlet of Smiley, 300 miles northwest of Regina. Smiley's meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
Levy also pointed to the meager returns of the election, in which only 50 per cent of the junior class had participated, as being definite evidence of the inadequate advertising of the election by the proper Council authorities...
...Information from the Atlantic will be meager because of the recent Government decision to withdraw U.S. support for the Atlantic weather ships (TIME...