Word: scant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian charity how scant...
...great ambition of the elder Rockefeller, to reach the age of one hundred, was denied him, Two scant years separated him from this goal, but other goals he has long since reached. His industrial leadership, which produced a service to aid all mankind, has already earned him his place in the history of American life...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham...
...passing of Mr. Rogers, a colorful figure departs from the gala Harvard commencement picture. He attended practically every graduation exercises, except when in ill health, and his cane and white beard were familiar June sights as he proudly led the alumni procession on such occasions. Only by a scant day did he outlive John T. Morse, '60, aged 97, second oldest alumnus, who died Saturday at his home in Needham. Thus the honor position in the procession now passes to John Kittredge Browne, '69, of Chicago. But moderate Mr. Rogers will not soon be forgotten as typifying the Harvard...
...scant months the Davieses have been in Moscow (TIME, Feb. 1), the friendly U. S. Ambassador has made it a practice to tell Bolshevik bigwigs straight off that he has no apologies to make for Capitalism and wants to hear no arguments for Communism, adding that he likes a shooting match of questions about either the U. S. or the U. S. S. R. with the answers kept as factual as possible. The shooting started when Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengoltz gave a five-hour Russian lunch for Ambassador & Mrs. Davies at his magnificent dacha or country estate adjoining Dictator Stalin...