Word: meagerness
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This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more available? Or less...
...running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager and too seasonal. In the Midwest its sway-backed boxcars, rusty rails and wheezing locomotives were more laughing stock than rolling stock...
...without even a dash of Economics I, without a Robber Baron in a carload of The-Men-Who-Made-America, The Great American Customer deals only inferentially with the subject of its title, concentrates on the all-but-forgotten manufacturers and salesmen who supplied the U.S. customer's meager demands in the early days after Independence. But it is a plum cake rich in things most U.S. citizens never knew before about their forebears...
...mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...
...penicillin was Dr. Chester S. Keefer, of Boston's Evans Hospital. He is chairman of the National Research Council's committee on chemical therapy, to which WPB turned over the rationing of the drug. Because it is especially effective in treating battle-wound infections, most of the meager supply (amount: a military secret) goes to the armed forces...