Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Undersecretary of the Treasury, like anyone else, may be expected to take a summer vacation. Fortnight ago when Ogden Livingston Mills slipped off on the Bremen for Europe, the U. S. Press paid scant attention. Before he could land in France, however, alert newshawks in Paris were cabling dispatches to their papers that French officials believed Undersecretary Mills was coming on a special mission for President Hoover, that he was to investigate European reactions to the new Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, and also to close negotiations on the problem of France's double taxation of U. S. subsidiaries doing business...
...third race the Ripple made a long beat to port while the Swedish yacht was off to starboard, came round the first buoy on the second round well in front, crossed the finish line 88 sec. ahead of France. On the fourth day the yachts again idled in the scant zephyrs until the recall signal was hoisted...
...night of the voting, Son-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the Morrow home surrounded by newsgatherers who showed scant interest in him. He clutched a private-wire telephone, received election returns. When these indicated the Ambassador's record-breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...
...gave me my only encouragement." Not authors alone, but many a prizefighter, statesman, explorer, doctor, will avow: "If Bob Davis wants my shirt, it's his." For of Robert Hobart Davis, editorial writer of the New York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with the lofty and lowly in every part of the globe, a quarter century's wealth of colorful experience...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...