Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There can be little doubt that Harvard Square is considered a lucrative market by the higher-ups in local booking. The operator of a highly-legitimate pool and billiard hall on Holyoke Street was approached by five men "with propositions" in the scant three months that his place operated this winter. Three of these men offered to help him pay his rent every month if he would let them meet bettors there from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every afternoon. The other "businessmen" wanted to buy out the place and use it as a front. They offered $8000, which, although...
...most often been likened to Puccini. Bar for bar, he bears scant resemblance, but Menotti's tender and romantic passages in particular come to the ear with something of Puccini's melodramatic appeal. Actually, Menotti says that Mussorgsky has been more his model; he has obviously learned from both Debussy and Prokofiev, too. He seldom strays far from traditional tonality, although he often uses sharp or strong dissonance for effect...
...Great Britain, with one doctor for 870 people, followed by Iceland (890), Denmark (950), Canada and New Zealand (970 each). About half of the U.S. doctors are absorbed by specialties (50,000), hospitals (27,000), government service (more than 12,000) and various sidelines, leaving a scant 100,000 general practitioners-about one for every 1,500 people. How this compares with the G.P. ratio in other countries, the A.M.A. could...
...plays are witty and rich in imagery, scant of plot, roundly romantic in temperament; some are medieval in setting and steeped in the religious quality of his Quaker's faith...
...last Parliament, with a Socialist majority of 140 seats, had turned out legislation at an unprecedented rate. Now, with its majority reduced to a risky seven, Parliament's legislative output would be scant and careful. Said the King's speech: "In view of the restricted time available . . . my government proposes only a limited program of legislation for the present session...