Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point...
...Marx parents shifted their little store from neighborhood to neighborhood with scant success, and there were few luxuries for Louis, his elder sister Rose and younger brother Dave. "But I don't remember feeling my life was tough," says Louis. "People in Brooklyn were warm and understanding, and I learned a lot about democracy. The class struggle? Someone sold that idea. We never felt...
Time ran out with him. Army was a scant yard and a half short of its score...
Princeton's soccer team tied favored Yale, 1 to 1, Saturday in Princeton to tighten the already close Ivy League race still further. Yale retains first place with a league record of four wins, no losses, and a tie, but has only a scant edge over Harvard and Pennsylvania, tied for second with records of four wins and one loss. The Elis will oppose the Crimson Friday at New Haven, and Penn travels to Cornell the next...
Chop Off His Head. The monarchy into which Princess Margaret was born in Scotland on the stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed...