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...your Jan. 30 report on Eric Partridge's Name into Word, you say: "[In 1759], France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager, and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...Government ordered the railroads to cut services. Cities around the U.S. worried about heat & light. The steel industry had reason to fear a complete shutdown. With 370,000 miners out on strike, the nation was down to a meager two-week supply of soft coal. Much as he disliked it, Harry Truman finally had to invoke the Taft-Hartley...
Extended Mission. For the professionals, the debates and discussions of the three-day session were a chance to bring each other up-to-date. It was not the time to speak of old complaints: of bulging classrooms, worn-out buildings and meager, if rising, paychecks. Instead, the teachers and principals and superintendents would be hashing over the latest trends in teaching, the latest gadgets, the newest films, and the most recent classroom experiments going on all over the nation. Unfortunately, much of their talk would be meaningless to nonprofessional ears. At a time when U.S. education had extended its mission...
...League gave the silent treatment to a hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
...same time, the appointment of John H. Meager, Jr. '31, to replace Thomas H. Eliot '28, as an unpaid member of the commission, was announced...