Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a minimum yearly stipend of $2,400 existing in but six states, the nation's average teacher's pay is a scant $36 dollars per week. Recent college surveys reveal that graduates are by-passing the teaching profession for very hard-headed economic reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer...
...being sternly reminded this week-National Heart Week-that medicine is making little headway against public enemy No. i: heart disease. Though heart disease, as obituary columns remind readers every day, is now the biggest killer (nearly 600,000 deaths a year), it gets scant research attention. Even more shocking, says the American Heart Association, is the nation's neglect of the treatable disease known as rheumatic fever...
Trailing more than a hundred points behind the winning Big Green, the Crimson skiers ended the two-day festival with 477 points--a scant three credits above the last place West Point aggregation. Middlebury nosed out McGill at the last minute to take second place, while New Hampshire's Wildcats and the University of Vermont's squad finished fourth and fifth, respectively...
...line are Bob Feloney and Captain Johnny Crocker both of whom figured prominently on last year's Varsity, while Sid Greeley and Shaw McKean round out the second string trio. Feloney never played hockey during his pre-College days at nearby Cambridge High. Now tipping the scales at a scant 140 pounds, he has a good shot and natural skating ability. Crocker was an all-around athlete at Groton, McKean once captained a St. Paul's School team, and Greeley played three years for Framingham High. Sid's brother, Dick, now teaming with Preston at defense...
Getting off to a slow start that gave them a scant five point lead at the half, the Freshmen opened a 30 point third quarter barrage that sewed the game up. Captain John Rockwell notched 30 markers, leading his team to their eighth victory in nine starts, while Chuck Brynteson was t0he Crimson's second highest scorer with four field goals and four successful free throws...