Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner Janssen, 30, Manhattan jazz pianist and composer. Critics paid scant attention to the first half of the program. The Chabrier was tame, the d'Indy lovely but pallid. The Clevelanders played well, but the last half agitated some critical pens...
...celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony anticipates the tercentenary of the College by a scant six years, and although the college will undoubtedly mark its own birthday, it will also have a prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state...
...general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
...lobbied, made much of the technicality that he had not personally cashed his Senate pay checks. In the end, though, Senator Bingham was concerned into the admission that: "I probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher-and-drill-pupil manner he conducted his classes in South American history at Yale...
Last week, thin, scant-haired; Dr. Uhrbrock made known the guesses of his 603 scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...