Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mere Pittance. The plight of the student is more alarming still. Since practically no shop or factory will employ them, only a handful of students can ever work their way through college. Of 150,000 university students in France, only 25,000 have government scholarships of about $28.50 a month. Since the average student's rent takes about $23, the scholarship leaves only a pittance for food, clothing and books. The fact is, says Etienne MacRay, secretary of the national student union, "unless a student has wealthy parents, he is forced to go hungry much of the time. This...
...went well until they stood a mere mile from Santona's lighthouse. Then the Flower's engine sputtered to a stop. The youngest son tinkered with the dead machinery. "Quick, Manuel, or we'll be caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs...
...Charles Morgan) is one more melodrama in which a scientist discovers a new source of power -this time by harnessing the heat of the sun. Being the work of Charles Morgan, it is meant as far more-though at times it comes off as far less-than a mere thriller. The author of The Fountain is a stylishly earnest writer who, while posing philosophic debates over when the new weapon should be used, offers cultivated characters who spout Shakespeare and Keats and dress regularly for destruction...
...time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps because Playwright Morgan prefers the pursuit of ideas to a mere manhunt; the only remaining action is that the assistant, for fear of blabbing again, nobly swallows poison...
...exports to China, which amounted to $255 million a year before World War II, are still negligible. Though they climbed 750% in 1953. they totaled only $4,500.000 (mostly medicines and chemicals), a mere 2% of the total known free world exports to China (mainly from Hong Kong, West Germany and France...