Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts are not inveighed at from Christian pulpits. Last week there was scant cause for Christian alarm in San Francisco's convention. Few Occidental Buddhists went to it. Not present were converts Dwight Goddard of Union Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite...
...served as the Government's grinning, good-natured host to the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The youngest Army Brigadier in France, he understood these tattered, jobless, hungry Veterans who without invitation had marched by thousands upon Washington. He helped them build crude quarters on Anacostia flats. He handled their scant funds for food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington and the country a remarkable demonstration of mob management without benefit of tear...
Following heated discussion at a recent meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club, it was voted by a scant majority of 13 to 11 to affiliate with the National Student League, an organization with avowed communistic sympathies...
...predominant leader of this latest insurrection against authority. Neither was there any leader strong enough to stop it. Different blocs kept coalescing to undo the work of the economy committee. In four confused, hysterical days the House rejected proposals for $125,000,000 in savings, accepted a scant...
...current repertory of the Irish players few plays are as little known as "Autumn Fire," the work of T. C. Murray. The year 1924 saw it first produced in Dublin, 1926 in America. Scant knowledge of the piece did not keep a numerous audience from the Hollis Street Theatre Thursday night, when Boston was given its first sight of the play...