Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consuming interest in progressive social causes. She did volunteer settlement work, researched the cost of living, helped locally with Belgian relief, returned to Denver to serve as chief probation officer of the Juvenile Court under Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (since ousted). For her liberal views her father had scant sympathy. He used to mock her efforts to reform Industry and Labor. When he died in 1927, Miss Josephine inherited a large block of Rocky Mountain stock. She bought more, bought control of the company in 1928. Soon thereafter Rocky Mountain Fuel began making Colorado industrial history...
...week his department ordered physical examination for all Hoover Dam workers to determine if they were fit to stand the blazing canyon temperature (100° plus) at dam site. Much of the labor has been recruited from nearby camps of unemployed men whose physical condition has been lowered by scant rations...
...Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded by the glare. Miss Nichols overshot the field, nosed over, badly damaged the landing gear of her plane, escaped serious injury. But flyers and their fates held scant concern for St. John that day. For in the forenoon fire broke out on the town's busy waterfront, swept through blocks of piers and grain elevators, destroyed the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress and several harbor craft, was checked shortly before Pilot Nichols' plane arrived. Estimated loss...
...French horn that had no notes. He became a popular night club entertainer in Manhattan, then in London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it had been in the U. S. Bored with night clubs, he made three talking pictures which attracted scant notice, met and married Barbara Bennett, went to Hollywood where he accomplished nothing except learning to ride a horse...
...created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...