Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...
...Donaghy '29, who led Henry Chauncey '28 by the scant margin of five points a week ago has taken undisputed possession of first place among the individual hitters, having bolstered his average to .434 while that of Chauncey, still his nearest rival, has fallen to .355. W. W. Lord '28 and W. B. Jones '28 are the only regulars beside Donaghy whose averages have gone up as a result of their hitting in the last three games. H. W. Burns '28 still leads the field in runs scored with 19, almost a fourth of the team's total...
...provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule, and the day closes with a sense of futility and a dread of the professorial wrath to come...
Spread Eagle. A wave of melodrama has swept Manhattan this year. On the crest of it, Jed Harris, youthful impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...
Umpire Wilson's scant supply of patience was exhausted. Turning to the crowd, he screamed his decision to forfeit the game to Boston because of Cobb's behavior. Everyone seemed greatly embarrassed, with the exception of Mr. Cobb. A quick conference was held in which it was agreed that paying spectators deserved consideration. Wherefore another game was played with the ancient centre-fielder completely, conspicuously, Comfortingly (to Umpire Wilson, at least) absent...