Word: dearth
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...what it calls a Students Club. It is not a very elaborate affair, but because it has a monopoly on students' business, it does a landslide business. This enables it to stay open only when its proprietors feel like it, When it is open, the students starved by the dearth of meals in Bullie Hall, rush to it and eat and drink of a limited variety of food-stuffs. One might think that such an institution would be profitable but such is not the case...
Protestant dissatisfaction over the chaplain shortage also got an airing. Dr. Harold John Ockenga, pastor of Boston's Park Street Church (Congregational), back from visiting Army camps in 36 states, said many had too few chaplains. The 37-year-old minister blamed the dearth of volunteers on "the pacifistic attitude and teaching of the Federal Council of Churches. . . . Thousands of young men now in the ministry have adopted this attitude...
...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...