Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other departments the surpluses were small and, in most cases, immediately needed for one thing or another. The $98,231 earned by the Houses goes to the Corporation to help pay for the initial construction outlay. The dining halls $17,079 surplus is but a small buffer, according to the University, against future food price fluctuations. And the Hygiene Department's $31,619 surplus could be wiped away by one big epidemic, officials claim...
...Thus small, unpredictable surpluses and sick department deficits render the overall Harvard position an unsure one, despite the $497,753 "profit...
During the war, U. S. soldiers made pocket money selling fountain pens to the Italians. Now the tables are turned. The streets are full of small boys selling cheap fountain pens called "Parker 51," which they manage to pronounce enough enough like "Parker 51" to make gullible Americans think they've found a bargain...
...passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network of small plants for building materials and consumer goods is well established, does O.C.I, recommend hydroelectric plants on the northern slopes of the Elborz mountains, national reforestation projects, and irrigation programs in the desert regions...
Skinner places his pigeons in a small closed box with a button in one wall. The birds must peck at this button at least once every five minutes to be paid off with food. The eager but ignorant pigcon, however, not knowing he will get the same reward with less exertion, will hammer away rapidly for great lengths of time to get his dinner...