Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heavy Hitting Is Scant...
Extra base hits continue scant among Coach Mitchell's charges. Only ten in all have been registered, six of them doubles, while the remaining four have been evenly divided between three baggers and home runs. Sullivan is the Crimson's leading slugger, his extra base plies totalling nine bases...
...years. When three weeks ago the Freshmen nosed out Captain Winthrop's shell, it was expected that the University boat would get revenge as soon as it had rowed in the same order for more than three days. Last Saturday, however, the Freshmen did not win by a scant six feet, but in a final spurt pulled nearly a length ahead of Coach Steven's first boat. The second University crew was two lengths behind half way down the course, when the wash from the launches forced them to stop rowing for a moment; from there to the finish they...
...teams picked by Coach Horween to battle each other were so evenly matched that a single field goal was the margin of victory. The outfit which was called "Michigan' won by this scant margin over the "Dartmouth" combination. Sayles' drop kick in addition to winning for his team was the only score of the game...
...Duce deigned to chat often and familiarly with correspondents, to whom he usually accords scant courtesy. They, unmollified, reported unkindly that he seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...