Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Witness Reporters and spectators were paying scant attention one morning last week when Nathaniel Weyl, 41, a thin, broad-shouldered writer, came forward to take the witness stand in a fourth-floor committee room in the Senate Office Building. "Mr. Weyl," said Counsel Robert Morris of the Senate subcommittee on internal security, "have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" "Yes, I have, Mr. Morris," said Weyl firmly, and the room quieted to attentive silence. A few moments later reporters were scribbling: as a member of a Communist cell in Washington in 1934, Nathaniel Weyl swore that...
Does Anybody Win? Mrs. Celinsky's market basket was indeed the center of the long verbal war before the WSB's fact-finding panel. Was the basket, as Murray claimed, too scant for the growing output of her steelworker husband? Or would it, as Moreell and the industry argued, actually shrink-in spite of higher wages-because of higher prices that would result from them...
...last week gave the Ford Motor Co. the green light for a price boost averaging close to 5% on 1952 models. But Ford said no thanks. Instead, Ford boosted prices a scant 3% on most models, actually reduced prices slightly on three. Ford was following the lead of General Motors, which did not take the full hike permitted by OPS under the Capehart Amendment...
...into the U.S. High Commissioner's office tottered 77-year-old Rudolf Ullstein, on the arm of his nephew Karl. As he signed the document of restitution, tears of joy streamed down the old man's face. With his property he got problems galore-back taxes, licenses, scant and high-priced newsprint. But these will be problems for Karl and his cousins, who will run Ullstein's. For old Rudolf, victory alone was enough. "Now," said he, "I can walk through the front door of my house again...
...Saturday, the Crimson varsity took eight out of ten events, with only one close contest. The tight affair came, oddly enough, in Harvard's one sure-fire-win event, in which Springfield low board ace Pat Huddleston gave Pete Dillingham a running dive for his money. Dillingham finished a scant eight points ahead, with...