Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot at 44.5 1-2, the hammer at 165.2 1-2, (breaking a record of 25 years' standing), the discus at 135.7 1-4 and the pole vault at 13.4. Furthermore, two other Yale vaulters cleared 12.5, and its best high hurdler was a scant three yards behind Ben Hedges, the great Princeton captain, in 15s. Therefore it requires no expert to appreciate the magnitude of the task confronting the Harvard athletes at New Haven tomorrow...
...informal race rowed upstream from Cottage Farm Bridge to the Newell boathouse yesterday afternoon, the third University crew defeated the University 150-pound boat by a scant decklength on what was approximately the Henley distance...
...upsets, with Dartmouth undertaking a surprising power-in the distance runs, and the Crimson coming back in the field events and dashes when its chances seemed most slim resulted in a victory for Coach Farrell's men by a scant seven point margin. At the same time Yale humbled Princeton easily to the tune of 80-49, and the times and distance of the Blue-Tiger meet bode ill for the Crimson at their meeting in New Haven next week...
Even middle-class citizens who had scant sympathy for the strikers could not stand and gossip on the street corners without a deputy poking a bayonet point into the group and gruffly ordering: "Open up hereopen...
...Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest in the facts that the new company will manufacture annually some 5,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol, that it will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial alcohol, with more than 400 separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid...