Word: scrimping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obsessed by failure, Blakelock's mind began to crumble. He took to wearing multicolored sashes about his waist, tucking an antique dagger in his belt, bedecking himself with gaudy beads and trinkets. And while his growing family was forced to scrimp for food, he began to imagine himself a millionaire. Finally, in 1899, on the day that his ninth child was born, he was committed to an asylum. There, hopelessly insane, he spent most of the last 20 years of his life...
With a near-adequate book allowance from the Veterans Administration as backing, most undergraduates scrimp little to pay for their instructor's favorite tome. The problem today is to find the books authorized for purchase. Before the war, the faculty could do little to help students in the search for the printed word because the problem was basically financial. Now, however, the task is not to locate the money needed for book purchases, but to search out a store able to fill the demand for popular texts...
...they scrimp & save to send their children to school and college, and spend money on school buildings and equipment, Americans in general act as though they believe education is a cure for every social ill. But in the way they fail to bestow pay, respect and freedom on their teachers, Americans seem not to understand the first thing about education. Last week the National Opinion Research Center (University of Denver) supplied further evidence of this national ignorance...
...that the wishes of some 60 or 70 million women will be felt at the peace table. If those wishes are selfish, there will be no real peace. But if we can persuade our men by our daily attitude, from this day forward, that we would rather have to scrimp the rest of our lives than leave any other people in need and despair anywhere on this earth, then the end result will be that those who will have the power to form the peace will go about their task free to avail themselves of that tremendous force which...
...emergency exists, then, in every college, and every college must retrench and scrimp and economize as best it can. The policy at Harvard, as outlined by University officials, is perhaps distinctive because of its far-sighted determination "not to sacrifice long-term gains to solve a temporary crisis." The easiest method of slashing the budget, and one which may be adopted widely, is to reduce salaries. After all, it does seem a plausible argument that teachers should participate in the sacrifices which are everywhere being made for defense. But such a way out would reverse a trend which...