Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each special election on city management has, however, produced a smaller majority for Manager Hopkins. Last week he won by a scant 3,000 votes after Maurice Maschke, Ohio's National Republican Committeeman, had come to the support of Mr. Davis. Boss Maschke blamed Mr. Davis for their defeat. Had the latter promised the public not to run again for mayor himself, the plan would have won, felt Boss Maschke. A mathematician, Manager Hopkins on election night calculated that if his margin of victory continued to dwindle in the same ratio at future elections, he would be voted...
...been annoyed at the old and accepted practice of self-important little men entering the White House, saying "How-do-you-do" to the President, coming out to the newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker stands at the White House and begins, "I outlined to the President my plan for-," his selfish words are broadcast as if with the President's consent...
...aviation manufacturers, despite their scant representation at the London shew, have not been laggard in their foreign business. They sold abroad $2,485,070 worth of aircraft, $618,470 of motors, $846,500 of parts during the first five months of this year, according to a government compilation announced last week. The total, $3,990,050, was almost triple the $1,461,328 aviation exports of the same months in 1928. Canada, Mexico and Chile were the largest plane buyers; Germany the largest buyer of motors. Canada of parts...
...Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council had to make recommendations as to methods of handling the crop. The wheat co-operatives had to join together to create a stabilization...
...Nina won another great race, 475 miles from New London, Conn., to Gibson Island, Md. Twoscore other yachts sailed out of New London in a dripping fog the day after the Harvard-Yale crew race. During that thick night the Teragram missed the stern of Malabar VIII by a scant six feet. Then came clear weather, smooth sailing. Sachem and Nina, the first two yachts around Montauk Point, got the best wind after the turn. The Nina came in seven hours behind the Sachem, at night, but the Sachem had started at scratch because of her slight beam and because...