Word: meagerness
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...falls on dull ears. The Executive demands the Mellon bill and members of his party in both houses of Congress, regular and insurgent, hasten to reject it. He disapproves the Adjusted Compensation Act but Congress reenacts it. Congress passes a measure granting to postal employes an increase in their meager salaries; the President disapproves it. He protests against the restriction on Japanese immigration; Congress adopts it. Whenever before did a party in control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present so pitiable a spectacle of discord and division? Four years ago the Republican Party...
...name Picnic still survives in the minds of many. Both the picnic and celebration have always been largely financed by the money extorted from the Freshman class when the pictures are taken. This year an hour and a half of strenuous supplication by the Seniors netted but the meager sum of $159.13, an amount hardly large enough to carry the entire celebration...
...theatrical entertainments. And this in spite a tuneless score, a glaring lack of "feminine pulchritude", and a few heavy, mediocre scenes. The producer and cast, 'tis true, had a pretty flimsy foundation to build upon. Much of the humour was stale and slapstick, and in not a few cases meager ideas succeeded only through the brilliance in their execution. Yet at other times this was all forgotten in the splendor of some tableau or the diversion of one of the more successful comedy scenes...
...Catholic Press in the United States has been doing a wonderful work with meager resources and under many other even greater handicaps...
Hundreds of thousands were demobilized and there was neither food, clothing nor employment for them. The help given by the Allies was relatively meager; the situation was desperate. From this moment the mark began its long toboggan. Then came the publication of the peace terms, which caused consternation throughout the country: Germany, ruined, defeated, with an internal debt anchoring her head to the ground, had to find an enormous sum for the Allies...