Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Liberal Union boasts a scant 85 members, although more men are now in the process of being converted. Harvard Youth for Democracy has a roster...
...eight pages) to the story. The U.S. press gave more space (having more to give) but less than its all. The New York Times ran the story for 23 columns. The Moscow press, of course, printed not a word. London's Daily Worker gave the story a scant twelve lines on Page One; its New York cousin sneered in big black type: 18 COUPLES WED-QUIETLY AT CITY HALL...
...angle. With voters simmering over the possibility of "Tory Row" or Harvard domination, any real recognition of Plan E as a successful experiment became impossible. An aroused but befuddled electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money tree...
...industry was late getting into big production because retailers delayed orders last spring, waiting for lower prices which never came. When the orders finally began pouring in, toy manufacturers, like everyone else, were slowed up by shortages of materials. As a result, the industry has scant hope of bettering its last year's gross of $250 million...
...little later the Sky Queen's people abruptly forgot the scant fare and the lack of reclining chairs. The plane was running out of gasoline. She had been airborne for 18 hours and 32 minutes on a flight which had been scheduled for 17 hours; a night of violent headwinds had erased all chances of her reaching her first stop at Argentia, Newfoundland...