Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ordinary air contains 21% oxygen. At a height of three miles oxygen is so scant that to live man needs to breathe from tanks of the gas. At four miles oxygen is but 10% of the atmosphere, and airplane motors need superchargers...
...sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their lives with potted plants which they carry around the buildings as the sun moves across the heavens...
...goals, while Captain E. T. Gerry '31 followed with a single goal. The Harvard trio played rather raggedly at the beginning, permitting the opposing team to catch up on its handicap lead, but the Crimson mallet men picked up again at the end to win the game by a scant margin...
Mild, sandy-haired little President Simon Strousse Baker of Washington & Jefferson college (Washington, Pa.) was about to conduct chapel one morning last week. As he finished reading an announcement, all but a scant dozen of his 432 students got up and marched out. They were striking. More than 300 of them had signed a petition demanding President Baker's removal, to be presented to the W. & J. Board of Trustees this week...
TIME acknowledges its theological inefficiency in an ancient controversy, apologies to Mrs. Sanger. Scriptural evidence concerning the Holy Family is scant. Roman Catholics believe that Jesus was a unique child, that Luke's report ''She brought forth her first-born son." "does not prove at all that Mary had other children." Other exegetes reason that Joseph had several children, although Mary but one. Most Bible readers take the Book literally, see no derogation to Jesus in his having brothers and sisters as well as other sibs (blood relations).-ED. Hollandish Opening...