Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile and three quarters, four miles and three miles, respectively were extremely gratifying. Most of the crews were very evenly matched with all those rowing showing up better than a year ago. In the last race, over a course of three miles, the first two crews finished a scant six feet apart; the stroking in both cases being very fine, showing a good deal of headwork and racing instinct on the part of these two strokes...
...ones required three injections to cure. The new one, announced last week by Dr. William Hallock Park of New York City's health department, the man who has done so much bacteriological work to prevent disease, requires but two injections. Its supply so far is scant. Not until December will there be enough for New York City's 10,000 doctors...
Silver spade cut lightly into Pittsburgh soil, scooped up a scant quart of mineral-laden earth. Ground had been broken for the $10,000,000 power plant of the Duquesne Light Co. on Brunot's Island in the Ohio River.* Celebrities and guests boarded the steamship Manitou, chatted away the half-hour trip from the Island back to the city proper. In the earth, the cut remained...
...ball snaps from center, the quarterback takes it, wheels, and flips it to a halfback. The halfback draws back his arm and shoots and oval on an airline to an end far down the field. A frantic dive by the safety man, and a touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made...
...Bremen night-revelling Germans heard the same sound, rushed into the streets and put up such a shout that high above them passengers aboard the ship, shivering between scant blankets in unheated cabins, could hear...