Word: meagerness
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...primary worry, the doctor admitted, is how to keep the hand laundry going fast enough to provide "what seems like a thousand clean diapers a day." The hospital operates on a meager budget of $6,000 a year, and the great need, says Dr. Crane, is toys. Toys of any kind-old, fancy or plain -for the youngsters who have seen so little color and happiness in the bare hills of southwest Korea...
...such palliatives as scheduling weak, obscure opponents, and hoping for athletic plant endowment. The expedients have not been effective, for the schedule's core has necessarily remained a number of Ivy League colleges which, like Yale, talked much about deemphasis while doing the opposite, and the endowment has been meager. So long as this situation continues, Harvard's alternatives become buying teams versus dropping the sport altogether...
...atmosphere of constant squabble, one organization's charges against another for unfair competition or cut-throat tactics has prejudiced the Faculty Committee against all groups. Either insensitiveness or indifference to this has placed the organizations in the tenuous position they now hold. A good example is the meager attempt for reconciliation last week. The UN Council and the HLU stated that they were ready for some kind of agreement, and even exchanged films in violation of the releaser's contract. But the HLU then accused Ivy Films of wanting "exclusive" rights to film-showing at Harvard, a charge which...
...Maurier novel was hardly serious reading, its climax did probe the ethics of a murderer and allow his crime to go unpunished. When his clemency disturbed the Johnson Otlice, producers of the film version merely omitted the murder from their script. This compromise left My Cousin Rachel moral, meager, and pointless...
...American marsupial, says Dr. Hartman, is a congenital moron. In its tiny skull there is room for only a meager brain. Fertility, not intelligence, is the reason for its survival. Its popping, jet-black eyes are all pupil and ought to be sharp at night, but even in daylight they are dim and dull. Only its hearing is keen (its thin ears curl over to keep out insects during sleep), and its bristling whiskers have a superfine sense of touch. On his short legs, the possum meanders in a slow, aimless shuffle. As a climber he shows his greatest skill...