Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-one years old, Elmer Benson looks like a scant 30. Four years out of a country bank, he is totally devoid of egotism, pomposity, or malice. These qualities, with his transparent honesty and his spotlessly clean personal record, did as much as any other factors to win his election. You will hear a lot more of Elmer Benson in the next few years. GERALD R. ASFALG...
...proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT 30,000 INVADERS...
Your biting comments on Publisher Robert McCormick (TIME, Nov. 2) may be entirely in accord with the facts. Most Southerners, having scant reason for loving him, are quite ready to believe the worst about him. Nevertheless, members of the Louisiana Press Association are not willing to go along with you when you say: "Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering . . . possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupé, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift...
Musical Jeremiahs have long wailed about high prices which keep music from the plain people, draw only the rich who come not to hear but to be seen. Not less sour is their estimate of the "virtuoso system" which rewards performers for their fine airs or interesting eccentricities, pays scant attention to their musicianship. Last spring bright, aggressive Ira Arthur Hirschmann, vice president of New York's smart Saks Fifth Avenue department store, snapped: "It's about time somebody threw the circuses out of the concert halls...
...Harvard Roosevelt Club wishes to add this Phillips Brooks poll to the votes of the rest of the college, thus enabling them to say that the University is Democratic by a scant margin of 35 votes. No accurate results can be obtained by adding the votes of two-fifths of the Law School to the much more complete poll of the undergraduates conducted by the Crimson two weeks ago, which covered three-fourths of the college. Perhaps the Club would do well to get down to business in a really serious fashion and investigate the School of City Planning which...