Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...trees, but dark scant pasture drawn thin...
Harvard alumni were piqued three weeks ago when the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America met at Cambridge (TIME, Mar. 7). In the excitement of dedicating Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory, the visitors paid scant attention to the dedication of the last section of Harvard's group of buildings for the study of Physics. Between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory (Professor Theodore Lyman, director) and the Cruft High Tension Electrical Laboratory (Professor George Washington Pierce, director) with its two 100-ft. wireless towers-between them was a space, which now has been enclosed...
Displaying some of the best basketball they have shown all season, the Freshman courtmen lost a nip-and-tuck encounter to a strong Dean Academy quintet by a scant two-point margin. 29 to 27, yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small canvas-covered wagons. When...