Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airedale class in which there were 2,097 entries. Her body was a tapering cone, her forelegs struts, her hindlegs coiled springs. Sunny Meade Petit Poilu, Brussels griffon, owned by Mrs. William D. Goff, strutted among the others, well knowing that he would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded respect from a Saxon monarch...
Today Dixon plays M. P. Baker '22 at the B. A. A. for the state singles championship. He defeated Baker by a scant margin, when they met in a league match this winter...
...quarter-mile relay was narrowly won for the University by C. G. T. Lundell '27. Bateman of Tech left his Crimson rival half a lap in the rear, when Lundell, Harvard anchor man, snatched the baton, regained the lost territory, and won by a scant yard...
...Hertz companies had a very remarkable history in the Chicago stockmarket. The favorites of local speculators, many of whom became rich thereby, the shares of the Hertz companies sold at constantly higher prices. Frequently Mr. Hertz has declared that his stocks were selling too high, but speculators paid scant heed...
Chicago, long the world market for grain and livestock, has hitherto shown scant interest in cotton. This month, however, trading in cotton was for the first time in history inaugurated on the Chicago Board of Trade...