Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there is Varsity proceeds to the Adams Cup Regatta against Navy, Penn, and Columbia. Advance information on the latter two is scant at tilis stage, but the Middies have seven men back from last year's powerful and heavy shell...
...lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...
...compared with other jobholders) even though their wages have recently been going up a little. Last week, in a careful survey of nationwide education trends, the New York Times proved it, with figures. In 1940, reported Education Editor Benjamin Fine, the average U.S. public schoolteacher got only $1,441. Scant though this was, it was nearly $150 above the norm for all wage and salary people. This year, the teacher averages $2,644-slightly better than 1947-48's figure ($2,476), which was still about $250 below what the average U.S. jobholder...
...first move the AMG made was to repatriate the 10,000 Japanese technicians who had run Korea for the 43 years of their occupation. A scant 3,000 Americans had to take over their positions and begin training 7,000 Koreans for administration, for the Japanese had never permitted natives to rise above the rank of clerk or shopkeeper...
...President Romulo Gallegos, who flew off to exile in Cuba, blamed last fortnight's coup on 1) "powerful forces of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness"; 2) foreign oil interests; 3) the "scant attention the U.S. is paying toward Latin America"; 4) an unnamed foreign government. Said he: "There has occurred in Venezuela one more action like those which our democracy [throughout the Americas] has been suffering. Who is the director of this machine of oppression set on the march in our continent? What is the meaning of the notorious presence of a military attaché of a foreign...