Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old freshman team captain was beaten only once-in the 150-yard individual medley event of the last meet of the season, he lost, to a Yale man, by a scant two feet. He swam undefeated in all other events...
From the moment Dwight Eisenhower walked into his second presidential press conference last week, the atmosphere was different. The week before he had been nervous and tense, had taken up half of the time with his own personal statements, and had summarily brought a scant 15 minutes of questions & answers to a close by waving goodbye and walking out (TIME, March 2). This time Ike was relaxed and confident as he walked in the door of the conference room of the old State Department building. He nodded a friendly greeting to the 220 newshawks, and called several of them...
Beck was only an 18-years-old sophomore when Penn played the varsity in the Blockhouse on January 9, 1951. Sophomores are edgy, inexperienced players, liable to make mistakes; thus it is understandable that he was held to eight field goals and five free thrown for a scant 21 points. Penn started a three year mastery of the Crimson, winning 61-47. A month later the friendly confines of the Palestra helped Beck only slightly-he scored one more field goal for 23 points, and Penn won again...
Spectators literally breathed down each others necks watching the Ufford-Dewey event. But Ufford so outclassed Dewey that it was essentially a dull match, and not until Ufford took his last point--a scant 20 minutes after play began--did the gallery break into applause...
Last year Carroll F. Getchell, H.A.A. Business Manager, missed his guess by a scant 22,000. He had anticipated a seven game total of 124,000 where the actual sum was 102,576 paid admissions. This included a full house for the Yale game which grossed a sum in excess of $144,000 from 36,128 sun-drenched fans...