Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Americans used to suffer from complaints known as hay fever, asthma, or hives, for which they tried all manner of "simples" with scant success. Nowadays, they talk knowingly about their allergies, take scratch and patch tests and complicated treatments, and many enjoy marked relief. But most cannot hope to be cured; they must learn to live with their allergies, and for this they should understand them...
...Times movie editor proceeded to "prove" that movies are better than ever, if only by "the magnificence of the proportions of movie actresses. While Theda Bara could boast "but a scant 31 inch bust measurement, even a starlet today must...
...deposits was largely ignored, since brimstone is cheaper and easier to use. But as demand for sulphur rose to more than 150% of the peak war years, the rich Gulf coast brimstone deposits began to run out. Reserves above ground shrank from an 18 months' supply to a scant six months...
...arrived at Gunston Hall 17 years ago as the obscure daughter of a freshman Senator from Missouri. In those days Margaret's classmates sometimes twitted her about the "silent Senator" who never opened his mouth on Capitol Hill. Margaret herself, a competent scholar and an indifferent athlete, got scant attention from her contemporaries-until, one day at recess, they discovered that she could hit a higher note and hold it longer than anyone present...
Grounds for Marriage (MGM) dishes up some farcical leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...