Word: scant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scant two weeks before the end of the political campaign the Student Council has emerged with a temporary set of rules for rallies and other open meetings. By the time University Hall has checked the regulations, and by the time that the Colege organizations that asked for them have learned the rules, November 2 may have come and gone...
...gridiron efficiency rating places the Crimson twelfth among the country's football teams--three spots ahead of Purdue, which lost to the Fighting Irish by a scant point last weekend...
...unborn fashion magazine Kaleidoscope, publication day was a scant three months away. Ads were rolling in at $690 a page and up, and so was circulation at a charter rate of $18 a year. But at a point when most such "Projects X" would have gone through at least two dry runs, Kaleidoscope had not even produced a dummy. The publishers had not hired a single editorial staffer...
...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...
...garish, picture-strewn Sunday News of the World, but at least 20 times the influence. The sedate, 157-year-old Observer is only six years the junior of the hoary London Times,* and proud of its past. It missed the boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...