Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adams would be a great blow for the Puritans, with their undefeated record of many years standing and victories over Yale in '41 and '40. The mainstay of both squads' attack is speed, the paramount consideration in the House league, where organization is seldom good because of the dearth of practice time...
...Friend Pete Newell's defense came Admiral Land, hard-working believer in Navy traditions: Pete knows how to construct destroyers; South Portland is not the only example of bad management in the Liberty ship program; there is too great a dearth of first-class shipbuilders to warrant a drastic step...
...Miami Beach, a dearth of barbers forced many a soldier and workman to down an old masculine prejudice, sneak into a beauty shoppe, settle back to have his hair trimmed by a beautician...
...accelerated schedules, the usual percentage of Hanover's pleasure-seeking Indians will accompany the Green gridiron machine on its annual sortie into Cambridge. This information from the New Hampshire reservation explodes the rumor which suggested that the cancellation of the traditional one-day holiday for Dartmouthmen would mean a dearth of supporters in the opposition stands on the Saturday after next...
...when classes open today, there will be a dearth of instructors, reflected in the closing for courses formerly offered. How great the drop will be has not yet been accurately estimated, but it will definitely fall below the figure of 2043 for last year...