Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the scant-clothed figures of U. S. show girls must and will follow the new mode, rounding out bony flappers into elegant Junos, was proclaimed last week at Chicago by famed Florenz Ziegfeld. Added he: "I don't make a type of girl a favorite. I simply try to pick the girls to fit the clothes the designers provide...
...background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...
...with which primitive groups in various regions have adapted their material and social culture to the dictates of their environments. The Eskimo will be used as an example of the way in which an intelligent people have made the most of an apparently unfavor- able environment, utilizing what scant materials are at hand to make their lives fairly comfortable in a most inhospitable region; the Bedawins of Arabia to show how a desert environment has led them to adopt a pastoral, nomadic form of existence and has shaped many of their beliefs and customs; and the Polynesians and the Melanesians...
...week fire again came to destroy the monastery. The monks hastily pulled on their squared-toed shoes, their black gowns; they ran to the student dormitories and herded the sleepy boys to safety. They knew that they had neither chance nor means to extinguish the blaze. Water was too scant in the mountains. They telephoned Fort Smith. The night telephone operator there saw their signal flashing redly from her switchboard; asked, respectfully, what they wished; put them in instant connection with the Fort Smith fire department...
Newspapers, as they often do, last week brandished scant information of a new antiseptic-"monsol," synthesized by the Mondson Refining Co. This British concern is an offshoot of Sir Alfred Mend's industrial chemistry activities. His son Henry is its chairman. Scientific details they seemed chary in giving to the reporters. However, they did relate the drug's use, which the New York Times reported: "It can be applied to the skin and even to the tongue without burning and can be swallowed. More amazing still, it can even be injected into the blood stream, whereas few substances...