Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian architecture. Don't let that little "old" lamp-post deceive you, don't let its tattered respectability hide from your eyes the hideous sore that rears scant yards away...
...thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom-but not one new work of topflight fiction. The novels worth cheering about-and there were several in 1953-had relatively scant commercial success...
...Yorkers were satisfied with the scant, repetitive radio and TV news. When Associated Press Reporter Richard Feehan met former President Truman, who was visiting in Manhattan, on his morning walk, Truman complained that he did not get enough news from radio coverage. Reporter Feehan took Truman over to the A.P. building to watch the news ticker. (Truman returned to his hotel with a sheaf of A.P. stories under...
...said, "Mr. Griswold is trying to say that boys go to Yale whose interests are primarily other than academic. I'm not alarmed at this. Critics say, too, that high schools do not teach pupils how to think. They do not suggest that knowledge of itself is of scant value. You have to be able to translate...
...Chambers told Adolf A. Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, about his cell and its operations. Berle circulated a confidential memo to high officials describing Chambers' charges; apparently it, received scant attention or belief since many of those named continued to rise in power...