Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Bernard Kilgore became managing editor of Manhattan's Wall Street Journal ten years ago, it was a worthy but dull financial sheet with a scant 30,000 readers. By pepping up the writing and broadening the news coverage, he turned the W.S.J. into one of the most readable of U.S. newspapers. As a result, Kilgore in 1945 moved up to the presidency of Dow Jones & Co., Inc., owner of the paper, and worked to expand W.S.J. into a national newspaper for businessmen. This week, with thriving editions in Dallas and San Francisco as well as Manhattan, 42-year...
...Princeton's first play from scrimmage, Fullback Jack Davison carried the ball. Instead of taking off from a scant three yards behind the line of scrimmage and weaving his way through the openings (as in the T), Fullback Davison got up his speed well back, power-piled his way into the Cornell line the way fullbacks used to do. To make it slightly fancier, the play included an old-style fake reverse. Davison ripped through center for ten yards...
...challenged Taft when better-known and more prudent men had declined to take the chance. And in some respects, he was not altogether to be sneezed at. He had held the auditor's office for 14 years; in 1948, when Harry Truman was winning Ohio by a scant 7,107 votes, Joe Ferguson won re-election by 291,887-the biggest majority a Democrat ever got in the state...
...view of Gromaire's philosophy, the scant dozen watercolors in the exhibition might have been expected to look labored, but Gromaire's paintings do not turn out that way. His methods result in pictures that are sparkling and easy to take as a glass of champagne...
...Scant or not, the margin in the two heats, both timed in a sharp 2:02, made it a big day for Lusty Song and Owner Hayes. The winner's share of the record $75,208 purse: $40,537. It was a big day for Del Miller, too. He picked up a check for $4,053, the driver...