Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents an actual advancement of the Spanish front by a scant four miles...
...vineyards of northern France grape-growers watched helplessly the progress of a mysterious blight which will cut the millions of bottles of champagne which should have filled the cellars of Rheims this autumn down to a few scant thousands...
...Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government and the Smithsonian Institution. During his absence, St. Peter had visited the place with Tom and felt strongly how, having no strong bonds with the present, the boy was at one with the fine dead race that had set its city on a lofty...
...light blue ether above Fort Tilden, Rockaway Point anti-air defense base of Manhattan, soared, twisted, wobbled a deep blue cone of canvas, 15 ft. long, tapering in diameter from 5 ft. to 4 ft. Ahead, linked to the sky-target by a few scant hundred feet of rope, flew Air Lieut. Archie Smith in a Martin Bomber. From below anti-aircraft gunners launched torrents of gun fire, exploded thousands of pounds of powder into billions of cubic feet of gas. Sweated, toiled, emitted words peculiar to gunners...
...weather, when plates came to be developed they were found to be blank, for some reason unknown to the photographer or the Seniors in charge. Accordingly, the Senior picture will be retaken at 1 o'clock today on the steps of Widener, with none of yesterday's celebrations a scant five minutes will suffice...