Word: meagerness
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...Deliverance than one of America's most distinguished publishers. Except for indulgences such as a fondness for television shows like Hawaii Five-O, Laughlin was austere--in his business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller and many other authors who had struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers...
...Letters and journals yield some understanding of Stevens-the-man, but these are never placed side by side with the contemporaneous poetry, nor are annotations provided to draw parallels between the poems and relevant passages in the correspondence. At the very end of the collection, the editors include a meager notes section and an exhaustive but thoroughly unenlightening chronology...
Leading team scorer Rob Millar returns, but he topped an offense which managed meager stats of 2.6 goals a game and a 10 percent power-play efficiency...
...invention and steel existed only in science fiction--fits snugly into three rooms of the building's hot and stuffy basement. The machines are as inadequate in number as they are in quality; users often must wait in line to use the MAC's two bench presses and meager selection of free weights...
This does not mean that we should stand by apathetically in the face of dangerous working conditions for workers. But if the standards that the staff is applying to the table grapes were imposed on other produce, the edible selection of fruits and vegetables would be even more meager than it currently is in Harvard's dining halls. Indeed, the staff cannot even guarantee that the grapes in question at Harvard will come from California, not Chile...