Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Madison Avenue, as they were doing last week. Before the war broke out, the Freeman had reached a measure of success in its determination to be the best-known "right-wing magazine of opinion" in the U.S. In two years its circulation had climbed from a scant 6,000 to close to 22,000, and it was slowly edging its way into the black...
...explaining this lack, the Economics Department points out that its professors should concern themselves with theoretical and scholarly situations. Although the present course is scant and unsatisfactory, it is in harmony with the academic tone of the Department. But students in the Law and Business Schools as well as those working in business offices argue that a full year's study of accounting is a useful, almost necessary undergraduate task. Harvard students entering a graduate school at some other university find themselves unable to take certain courses because they lack the prerequisite year's course in accounting...
Three fundamental revolutions in the curriculum, one introduced by President Eliot, one by President Lowell and one by President Conant, have been completed in a scant 80 years. First the elective system, then concentration and distribution, and finally General Education, made a Harvard education in 1953 far more different from 1873 than 1873 was from...
...doctors called Roger's condition "precarious." He was still in a deep coma, his brain numbed by scant circulation because the operation had left him without a sagittal vein to carry blood from the top of the brain back toward the heart. Roger had no life functions except the most elemental and automatic: breathing, digestion and elimination. Rodney, who got the sagittal vein which the twins had formerly shared, drifted in & out of sleep. Awake, Rodney showed the same powers of observation and speech as before the operation, but was still groggy from the ordeal. His condition was "critical...
...flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne again, driven toward Denmark by 95-m.p.h. tail winds. Scandinavian's route-blazing flight ended at Copenhagen, after a flying time of 23 hrs. 34 min. (plus stopovers of 4 hrs. 43 min.) from Los Angeles. Time...