Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Junior University, on the side of San Juan Hill, is a grey pile of masonry suggestive of an administration building and at the same time, with its terraced roofs for outdoor living, reminiscent of the communal dwellings that the Zuñi Indians used to build. No lawn and scant shrubbery relieve the austere approach. Within, all is spacious and gracious, the solidly furnished home of the family of a man of large affairs. Here lives Nominee Hoover. Hither he was returning last week to await formal notification of his high honor...
...purpose of a college such as Yale to utilize the four years in presenting a great variety of courses from which the average man will be able to select those which appeal to him, within certain bounds prescribed by the requirements for degree. Four years, Yale believes, is a scant period in which to introduce a man to the field of learning and two years of it cannot safely be expended in allowing him to concentrate at the expense of his attainment of the highly desirable liberal education. --Yale News...
...advent of the reading period, indeed, brings a time of enforced inactivity to the Vagabond, although this is perhaps not unwelcome to his weary frame. For with the exception of a few scant offerings that are whispered of next week, today marks the culmination of the indoor season. So with only a faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment...
Paradoxically, not even this last and touching story availed to elect Paul Painleve last week, though he will have another chance at the forthcoming second poll. The fact that the enormous number of 3,712 candidates were seeking election to the scant 612 seats in the Chamber meant inevitably that many strong candidates failed to poll a majority. Among these was famed Louis Lucheur, Finance Minister in 1925, and "the richest man in France...
...style is rapidly developing and he finds himself turning off and amazing amount of work with an case which a month earlier he would have believed impossible. And it is often in this last stage that the obscure, inexperienced candidate of the first few weeks, the man who received scant notice from either editors or fellow competitions, steps out into a commanding lead...