Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunities which allow them to exercise and reveal their powers, whether those opportunities be offered in the recitation hour or in the examination period. The examination, viewed in the light, is for the pupils a friendly and silent insurance against unrecognized merit--as well as a warning against scant daily preparation
...Zero. All North China was colder last week than in any winter since 1893. Thermometers said 35°F. below zero in Harbin, Manchuria. Ill-clad, scant-nourished Chinafolk died by hundreds in cities, by dozens in towns...
...profits in excess of 5.75% and deposit them in a Federal fund for the use of weaker roads. So bitterly have the roads fought recapture in the courts (the famed O'Fallon case turned on it [TIME, May 29, 1929]) that the Commission has collected only a scant $10,000,000 in ten years. Declared its report...
...qualifications which an aspirant must have are so well known as to require scant perusal. The 'Constitution says one must have been born in the U. S. at least 35 years ago and lived there at least 14 years. Unwritten laws at present add that one must be a white male with no known criminal, immoral or undignified tendencies, preferably Protestant, preferably a holder of public office...
...nothing. Violence and threats of libel alike failed to stop the editors. The Gazette dealt in harsh detail with one John B. Gough, temperance lecturer, whom it claimed to have found intoxicated in a Manhattan brothel. It pilloried a Mrs. Ann Lohman-"Mme. Restell, the female abortionist." It had scant sympathy for Albert Deane Richardson, shot to death in the Tribune office by the husband of the woman he loved...