Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Vernon Struck has also been having difficulty in hitting the basket this season with a scant 23 points in league competition. But Struckie along with Ulysses Lupien has played a major part in the Crimson defense that has been so effective in the last few games. Against Columbia the Feslerman were able to hold the opposition to six points in the second half and Tuesday night kept the Ithacans to eight tallies in the last period...
...scant five years after it was founded by San Francisco's Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany in 1863, little St. Mary's College foundered, was saved only when Pope Pius IX appealed to the Brothers of the Christian Schools, a lay order, to take it over. The college burned down in 1894, rose from its ashes, was razed again by fire in 1918, made still another fresh start. In 1921, when it hired Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong...
Apparently tiring toward the close of the first half, the Varsity left the floor between periods with a scant 24-18 edge on the Terriers...
...reason why steel production has been so scant of late...
...four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed-except at the city's most vital point, a scant quarter mile stretch of the old Boulevard across the Chicago River, which still clotted at each change of a traffic light...