Word: meagerer
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...years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time Nannarella reached 24, she was a market queen with 25 obedient "subjects...
...Dorothy Thompson, children were exposed to samples of great literature almost as soon as they could read. But by the very nature of the modern reader, top writers are often automatically ruled out. "Fine literature, even such as is consciously written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play...
Clean rooms are the responsibility of the well financed Department of Buildings and Grounds. Their meager contribution toward getting the rooms into shape was a handful of untrained Freshman who came to Cambridge a day or so early to clean the bathrooms as best their lily white hands could. A month before this, many janitors dusted the rooms after they waxed the floors, but this was a humanitarian donation which thirty days of Cambridge obliterated. The Department of Buildings and Grounds might well invest early each September in a few mops, some dust rags, and a few cans of elbow...
...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
...Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays on overseas calls sometimes ran up to seven hours; occasionally the blackouts have been known to last for days...