Word: meagerer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Metropolitan Museum turned a marble-cold shoulder to modern art. In 1948, Director Francis Taylor observed that "the contemporary artist has been reduced to the status of a flat-chested pelican, strutting upon the intellectual wastelands and beaches, content to take whatever nourishment he can from his own too meager breast." In 1950, the Met began wooing the pelicans with the first of three big roundups of contemporary U.S. art-and got about as many pokes as pecks for its change of heart...
...picturesque West Indies colonies, once rich treasure islands fought over by the fleets of Nelson, Rodney and De Grasse, are now impoverished and decaying. Overpopulated, underfed, off the direct pathways of world trade, they have been kept going in recent years mainly by meager doles from the mother countries and rising U.S. tourist trade. Seeking ways out of their luckless predicament, some have suggested switching allegiance to the U.S., a few have talked of lining up with nearby independent countries, and others, defying harsh economic realities, have demanded immediate independence...
Holding the much lighter Bunny team to only four first downs, Eliot made 13 of its own, mostly on the ground. The Elephants totaled 229 yards in scrimmage to Leverett's meager 52, while the vaunted Bunny serial attack also failed to materialize. Eliot passed for 82 yards to 46 for Leverett...
...English department has but one defense for this dearth: there are not enough students interested in courses dealing with single writers to warrant giving them every year. This is irrelevant, however. It does not excuse the gaping lapse in historical continuity so evident in American Literature's meager offerings...
...working as a laborer and clerk for an oil company for 2½ years, he finally got back to the university. Then, during vacations, he worked as a subscription salesman for TIME. After law school, he went into his father's law office in Port Arthur. Practice was meager, but at the end of his first year he settled a case with a big fee: $800. With that, Shivers launched himself in politics...