Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council realizes that the present system encourages many candidates for the honor of the Permanent Committee, while few are willing to try for the scant prestige and harder work of the Class Day Committee, elected a few weeks later. We have advocated combining the two elections. The twelve highest vote-getters, the well-known seniors, would make up the Permanent Committee, which contacts class members for projects in later years. The next two men would be on the Class Day Committee. And in order to insure the coordination needed in planning the Senior Week, the last eight representatives...
...scant hundred years since Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease, medical scientists have concentrated on helping the patient by attacking the germs, first with preventive vaccines, latterly with antibiotics that arrest or alter the course of full-blown disease. Last week, before a packed audience at the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. René Jules Dubos, most imaginative of Pasteur's scientific heirs, suggested a radically new approach: work not on the microbes but on the patient, so that the microbe-invaders will never have a chance to cause disease...
...around guy" are usually associated with high school and Mid-Western colleges. But when a contest for Permanent Class Committee. Last year's balloting produced two major criticisms of the election procedure. While the prestige of the Permanent Class Committee encourages many nominations, few candidates are willing to accept scant honor and drudgery of the Class Day Committee. Moreover, only a minority of the Houses are usually represented on these Committees...
...year job last year to fight the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. As vice president of the A.F.L.'s new rival dock union, he won thousands of dock-wallopers away from the I.L.A. But last month the I.L.A. won a Labor Relations Board election (by a scant 263 votes out of 18,551), and thereby held on to control of waterfront jobs...
...current issue of the Harvard Business Review, they say that "the average executive has scant knowledge . . . of true present costs . . . rate of growth and . . . trends [of fringe benefits]. Cost-accounting practices, created originally to serve a primarily mercantile business community, simply have not kept pace with the intelligence requirements of today's industrial management...