Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...federation its first majority in any city. Last week, having doubled its membership in two years, for the first time A. F. T. set its cap hopefully for the conservative rank & file of the nation's 1,000,000 teachers, of whom it has so far enrolled a scant 3%, some 30,000 members in 250 locals...
...Ph.D. at Columbia's Teachers College. A War veteran and member of the American Legion, Professor Gellermann had written a copiously documented but partisan analysis of the Legion.* Its sponsor was Teachers College's leftist Professor George Sylvester Counts. Last year, typewritten copies of this document got scant attention from the press. But last week, as the National Education Association gathered in .Manhattan (see col. 3) and the first copies of Dr. Gellermann's work came from the printers, an enterprising New York Times reporter mixed the two ingredients, produced an explosion...
Last week a competition for an art centre for Wheaton College gave some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work of two beginners. To the celebrated internationalists, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, they gave second prize...
Chilled by this good start towards a labor war, both sides quickly sobered. Republican, antiC. I. O. Mayor Lee D. Schroy temporarily reduced police contingents around Goodyear, swore to put every officer in town on duty when the plant reopened after Decoration Day. But a scant few hours before the zero hour, U. R. W. leaders persuaded 3,000 rubber workers gathered in meeting to accept management concessions: 1) to enforce a seniority rule, 2) to negotiate for a written agreement, 3) to discuss wage adjustments. Next morning the rubber workers went peaceably to work...
...frontal advance on Japanese entrenched positions was ordered by General Li Tsung-jen, but rather a series of sweeping side attacks, each more intense than the other, each spaced to give the Japanese scant time to recuperate from the last. The Chinese general hoped by these tactics to wear down the Japanese forces so that a general retreat would be ordered...