Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Edmonton, Alberta, the Alberta Government's Traveling Clinic, only one of its kind, was preparing to travel north to isolated hamlets. Two doctors, two dentists, four nurses will be in the party. Medical facilities are so scant in rural Canada that patients bring their own beds to the clinic. Last year the clinic staff performed 1,408 tonsil and adenoids operations, extracted 2,775 teeth...
...these views. If the Bible is merely the "time-worn literature of great men" it means one thing. If it is of "divine authorship" it is something else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive to note this latest example of the dominion over contemporary minds still retained by the spirit of past centuries...
...foreign affairs he gives scant attention, takes no side on the World Court, Disarmament, the League of Nations. His position is that the Senate, not the House, must deal with such matters...
...ready to increase its border force under this proposal from a scant 1,000 to 10,000 men. It would likewise consolidate its four patrol forces?customs, Prohibition, coast guard, immigration?into one service to guard the border between ports of entry...
...short, the Vagabond means that void between the end of examinations and the beginning of the next term. Most undergraduates have anywhere from a week to ten days of freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...