Word: meagerness
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...camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...based on absurd misinformation, the announcements are usually premature or published by some enterprising reporter before the methods have been scientifically investigated or published in medical literature. A number of such remedies, recently reported, may or may not be in this class, but facts at hand are so meager that they can merely be listed, and must await scientific confirmation...
...According to interviews attributed to Dr. Muncie upon his return, while his patient was said to be a European prince, it was expressly denied that it was Don Jaime. A meager description of his methods of " finger surgery " was given, whereby he claims to " reconstruct" the eustachian tube by manipulation through the mouth while the patient is under anaesthesia...
Others objected to Mr. Haynes' adding to his meager salary of $5,000 by what should be the handsome returns of his syndicated articles and book. Lloyd George, who attempted a similar feat while in office, was compelled by public criticism to promise the proceeds of his memoirs to charity?and finally abandoned the project...
...reported remedy for cancer developed by Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, seems, on the basis of the meager information at hand, to be the most promising of all recent " cures" that have been suggested (TIME, May 19). Dr. Bell's specific is a solution of colloidal lead (a colloid is a gluelike, noncrystalline organic substance that will not pass through a membrane), which appears to have a marked effect on malignant growths like cancer. Dr. Bell has been experimenting with it for 18 years and has recently employed it in 50 cases given up by surgeons as hopeless...