Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boom burst upon an economically depressed area that has scant natural resources for industry, a limited power supply and an uninviting tax structure. But it has two overwhelming advantages: a climate for ideas that has been carefully fostered during its 250 years as a U.S. intellectual headquarters, and the opportunity for pleasant living. The Atlantic Ocean is a few miles away. The mountains are only a short drive. Near by are many science-strong schools: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, Northeastern and Boston University. Says M.I.T.'s Engineering Dean Gordon Brown: "To have a place where research-based...
...years ago, Lawyer Joseph, 29, would have had scant prospects of winning his case. But in Illinois, as in most other states of the U.S., the past few years have seen a striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within...
...Queen's Theater in the Haymarket. The son of a German barber-surgeon, Handel had left his home town of Halle at 18, had spent three years in Italy schooling himself in opera and oratorio. On his first visit to England, he patched Rinaldo together in a scant two weeks. Based on the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), the opera was derided by Addison in The Spectator for its "Painted dragons spitting wildfire, and enchanted chariots drawn by Flanders mares." But its lush melodies were just what the public wanted: it became the first real operatic...
...away from the business lobbies and commercial interests that tempted the old regimes, and from the street mobs that they were able to hire for slogan-shouting marches on the legislature. The new inland capital, 100 miles east of the Khyber Pass, will also be a scant 35 miles from Rawalpindi-headquarters of the Pakistan army...
...scant majority do feel that their "moral concern has grown more intense in the absence of any assurance of God's existence or of an after-life." However, the attitude of the atheistagnostic group toward undertaking the risks of world government was the same as for the undergraduates as a whole--evenly divided almost exactly--except that, out of the thirty people who responded that they were indifferent to the whole issue, ten were agnostics and one an atheist! On one of the most crucial questions of the twentieth century, it appears, the "enlightened skeptic" exceeds his believing brethren only...