Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School.* Dr. John Charles Van Dyke, Professor of the History of Art at Rutgers College, attacked the alleged Rembrandt myth, assiduously fostered by critics, collectors and the public, which has ascribed over 800 paintings of varying merit to the master. He finished by conceding authenticity to a scant 35. The rest of the works commonly attributed to Rembrandt, he claims, are by Eeckhout, Bol, Kolnick, Horst, Fabritius, Backer, de Gelder and other pupils, copyists, or imitators of Rembrandt, and since the great Hollander's vogue became so high in the last century, they have been assigned to him through...
...situation when the convention opened: Cappellini?the man who lost his right arm in a coal mine, got scant damages, went away for two years, educated himself, learned English, and came back as one of the most formidable leaders of the miners ?Cappellini, young, black-haired, impulsive, hating the mine owners, was there, supported by a delegation which the moderates feared might control the convention. He was the man who led the fight against acceptance of the terms on which the five months' strike of last year was terminated. Opposed to him was Lewis, the big boss, who barely...
...publisher after another to print his book on the "Influence of Sea Power on History", but all in vain, so that he was on the point of giving up the attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company to take it. Even then it had a scant sale, until its merit was recognized in England, and in a few years he became the American best known abroad. To come nearer home, our late benefactor, Henry L. Higginson, in early life studied music for several years in Europe, but finding himself unfitted for a musical career, came home...
...superior fielding of the University baseball team was not sufficient to check the aggressive Williams nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Purple finally winning by the scant margin of two runs to one. It was a pitching battle all the way between Herrmann and Clement, both men holding their opponents to six singles. Clark played a brilliant game for the Crimson by making several spectacular catches that deprived the Purple of apparently sure runs. Buck was the individual star for the visitors, cutting short the University's one opportunity to tie the score in the last of the seventh...
Rough weather prevailed generally on the Basin yesterday during an afternoon replete with races ranging all the way from an interdormitory affair to the University-Freshman tussle. The latter contest went to the 1926 crew by a good two lengths, Senior A nosed out Sophomore A by a scant 8 feet, University B and C raced to a dead heat, and Gore won decisively from the Standish and Smith Halls eights. In addition to the home program, the second Freshman eight made a trip to Groton and lost to the schoolboys by a quarter length...