Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Court in Cleveland he was being tried by seven women and five men on 16 charges of misapplication of Guardian's funds, and ten charges of false entry to cover up the misapplication. Question was whether Banker House had acted in good faith when, a scant 18 months after his Washington appointment, he had dipped into his bank's pension fund for money to bolster Guardian stock in a ''distress" market. Prosecution claimed that he had not, that the transaction was illegal, that Banker House had acted to save his own 1,500 shares. After...
...over Maine and Massachusetts. Groundlings saw its orange-red path, heard a mighty rumbling and hissing. Somewhere above the Massachusetts coastline the meteor exploded. At Salisbury Beach a crowd of Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported...
...enough wheat of any kind growing in Italy to fill her normal wheat and flour consumption of 300,000,000 bu. Into U. S. mouths normally go more than 600,000,000 bu. of wheat but this year U. S. farmers can raise only a scant 484,000,000 bu. Germans, who eat nearly 200,000,000 bu., have not had enough water to raise 150,000,000 bu. Great Britain and Ireland, almost wholly dependent on the world for wheat, consume more than 275,000,000 bu., produce less than a quarter of that amount. This year the Danube...
...defense of the U. S.' are conceptions of those who fail to realize the inherent limitations of aviation and to consider ocean barriers." For the so-called Mitchell plan of unification of the Army & Navy air forces under a separate air department the committee had scant sympathy. Such a plan "would be a serious error, jeopardize the security of the Nation in an emergency, and be an unnecessary burden on the tax-payer...
...Princeton ran a mile race at Princeton a year ago, Lovelock set a world's record and won by seven strides. When they met again for the same distance at Shepherd's Bush, England, in a Cornell & Princeton v. Oxford & Cambridge meet last week, there seemed scant justification for the British belief that Lovelock would repeat his victory. An operation on his knee last winter, which doctors feared might end his track career, had apparently slowed him down. In two starts this year he had not come within ten seconds of his best time. Bonthron, in a year...