Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands who sat in Mark Hopkins' classes only a scant 250 lived to journey to Williamstown for his Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they recalled his classes in moral philosophy, when he wrote their names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many...
...Deal suffered two defeats. The first, utterly inglorious, involved Emil Hurja, Democratic Boss Farley's No. 1 assistant, who was disfranchised when the election board at Crystal Falls discovered that his absentee ballot was improperly witnessed. The second New Deal defeat was that one of the scant 23 Republicans now in the U. S. Senate definitely lost his chance of returning there. He was James Couzens, who made his millions as a onetime Ford partner and his reputation for independence as a longtime (since 1922) Senator...
However much or little truth there was in this,* British newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly...
...dump and sell frantically abroad, its exports are steadily dropping, have declined 60% since 1930. As a means of spreading Communist influence in Turkey, Persia, western China, Mongolia and certain other Far East areas, Moscow is now forcing Soviet industrial exports at cheap prices to these countries. Having scant industries of their own, they set up no squeals about "DUMPING!", are glad to buy cheap. Russia's present or Second Five-Year-Plan was to use the Economic Base established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country...
...made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office, causing Largo Caballero to emerge from time to time...