Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 1, your able book review editor passed up several fascinating books, chose for review a book about an erotic Russian musician whose chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...
After this Japan's political parties attached scant importance to a high-sounding declaration made this week by Premier & Foreign Minister General Senjuro Hayashi: "The present Government will seek adjustment of the Empire's relations with China & the Soviet Union," will "adhere to the principle of non-menace and non-aggression...
...week were typical of British extremes which met to give horrible examples of journalistic prying and peeping into British lives, high, low and intermediate. The coroner in a gruesome North London accident case last week was quoted in the House as remarking of N. P. A. cameramen: "They showed scant regard for decencies in their treatment of the dying patient!" Closing the debate, Home Secretary Sir John Simon warmly assured M.P.'s that he will remonstrate with the N. P. A., drew hearty cheers from all quarters of the House...
...University's prestige more than factional disputes have impaired it. The current hearings debunk Frank's record no more convincingly than the initial fulminations of the Governor's appointees. Their unseemly haste and petty discourtesies to Dr. Frank indicate the Regent's determination to railroad the President with but scant reflection. The Governor has already reflected for them...
Cynical Philadelphians foresaw a fight to have the indictments quashed, scant possibility of convictions, much less of prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...