Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early season predictions gave Harvard scant chance to win more than one game, but under Yovicsin's coaching, the Crimson won three of its first six games until injuries cut it down in its last two contests of the year. Yovicsin was "pleased, although naturally not completely pleased. We hoped to have a winning season," he says, "but we are very happy with the progress the boys made...
Multiple Monomania. With all this, plus university duties as an associate director of the Radiation Laboratory and a teacher of postgraduate physics. Teller's life shows scant resemblance to the stereotype of the scientist at work, insulated from the clamors and interruptions of the outside world. Even before Teller leaves his garden-girdled house in Berkeley in the morning, his harried secretary usually puts through two or three long-distance calls. After he gets to his office, a train of thought about some theoretical problem in nuclear physics is likely to be interrupted by a query from the Pentagon...
...winner was John Welsh of Harvard, who drove an MG A and was a scant one second off the average speed at the checkpoint...
Captain Brandy Harrison and Bullpup Bill Bachrach staged a neck-and-neck sprint battle down the last 50 yards, with the Eli ace finally giving up. Harrison finished third, a scant ten yards behind Carroll...
...reacted typically, alternating threats with exhortation. To unions he pleaded for deferment of wage demands, simultaneously made threatening noises about compulsory savings. To employers he talked of production norms and price ceilings. When unemployment topped 1,500,000, he beat off a censure move in the Bundestag by a scant majority. "Your policy," jeered Socialist Erik Nolting, "only makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...