Word: meagerness
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...pangs grew sharper, the sailors rigged a piece of canvas across the center of the boat, against the breaking waves. In the darkness Dr. Conly fumbled with the meager equipment of the lifeboat's first-aid kit-hemostats, scissors, gauze, iodine, aspirin, all drenched in salt water. He had had no chance to grab his instruments before his ship went down...
...Minnesota. William Worrall Mayo came to the U.S. from Britain in 1845. He became a pharmacist in Manhattan's old Bellevue Hospital, later studied medicine at Indiana Medical College, moved, after several stops, to the little town of Rochester, Minn., 75 miles from Minneapolis. To eke out his meager earnings as a physician, the lively young man worked at various times as druggist, tailor, horse doctor, ferryman on the Minnesota River...
...pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...
Like most other provisions of the new income-tax schedule, lower exemptions produced the biggest percentage increase in the taxes of people with small and moderate incomes (see box). And most of the new tax burden had to be borne by people of moderate means. For all but a meager 10⅓% of the nation's aggregate income goes to people who earn $15,000 or less. And the taxes of the rich are already high-43% on a $100,000 income, 72% on a $1,000,000 income...
...Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood in a speech promised Russia all the credit she could use, warned at the same time that help to Russia would mean that Britons must haul in another notch in their belts. What Sir Kingsley did not say was how much of her own meager supplies Britain can spare for the Russians, how the supplies can be sent...