Word: dearth
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...guard situation is worrying Coach Drohan for he has found it necessary to develop two natural forwards into guards because of the dearth of promising material for the defensive positions. Both Oothout and Meisenbach have been shifted from the offense to the defense and have not yet found themselves in their new positions...
...yesterday afternoon only 600 tickets had been sold of the total Harvard allotment of 2622. The H. A. A authorities believe that this dearth of applications is largely due to the fact that the Yale game is earlier than usual this year, and that therefore hockey enthusiasm is not yet fully aroused...
Laura Jean Libbey, as much of an institution in our country as Christopher Columbus, the hot dog, Pike's Peak, the Statue of Liberty, is dead at the age of 62. Her passing means a severe dearth in the reading-matter of millions of the great submerged. She was to the masses what Michael Arlen temporarily threatens to become to the classes...
This one-sided, material emphasis in Russian education will be preserved as long as the present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...
...Production has been consistently retarded by the dearth of labor; and, for the last year, more than 6,000 immigrant workers have been arriving every week...