Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have devoted 92 lines of the Oct. 10 Cinema section to a busty English vaudeville actress called Diana Dors, explaining in unnecessary detail the color of her lawnmower and second-hand Rolls-Royce, yet in your Milestones column you give only a scant nine lines to the memory of America's greatest young actor, James Dean, who was killed in an untimely accident...
...that Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov is a prosperous playwright as well as editor of Ogonek, one of Russia's most successful magazines, a nearby broker quickly handed Sofronov his card, just in case he wanted to invest his money. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the journalists paid scant attention to the pictures. Instead they hobnobbed with a group of sixth-graders from Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School who were being lectured on art. "This," said Polevoy, "is the way to run a museum." At Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Foreign Affairs Expert Boris Romanovich Izakov...
Brew's outstanding finish was almost equalled by Pete Reider, who finished a scant six seconds behind the Green captain in the best race of his career. Reider set a Crimson record on the Dartmouth track in beating Hal Gerry's old mark set in 1953 by 18 seconds...
...forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...score. As in the varsity meet, Brown took second place, M.I.T. was third, and Tufts finished fourth. The Crimson's Jim Schlaeppl won in a fast time of 17:02. Bill Thompson broke across the line in 17:07, while Dick Benjamin followed him by a scant three seconds...