Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his son's second birthday was approaching, a free-lance industrial design consultant named A. F. (for Arnold Ferdinand) Arnold went shopping for toys to give the boy. "I found there was a dearth of creative toys," says Arnold. "Either they were very cold and sterile toys developed through clinical tests, or else they were so damn cute that a child got no fun out of them...
...nine-man City Council, there is an even greater dearth of campaign subjects. Again the NBC has investigated the candidates and prepared a listing of the nine men best suited for the posts. It can only be stressed that under Plan A the candidates themselves lose incentive for speaking out. There are nine spots on the ballot and silence on controversial issues cannot alienate votes here and there. Personalities enter into consideration less and less...
...philosophy "has failed to tell us what is more important and what is less [important] in education." It has completely failed to realize that the best education for a changing world is "a thorough grounding in those things which [are] least likely to change." In short: "There is no dearth of facts, of principles, or higher truths for us to teach and to learn. Let us get on with the learning and the teaching...
Uncertainties over the effect of limited substitution and a dearth or information on the Bobcats have kept the game off most of the betting lists. But the Crimson, with its two leading ground gainers back, is generally conceded a one touch down edge...
When Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet sat down 17 years ago to write Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease, there was an abundance of knowledge about the nature of most of mankind's ills, but a dearth of specific remedies. Now, thanks to the sulfas and antibiotics, the picture is so different that Burnet, rewriting his book completely as The Natural History of Infectious Disease (Cambridge University Press; $4.50) can make the revolutionary statement: "It is not too much to say that at the present time no acute infection occurring in a previously healthy individual will result in his death...