Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pinging bullets and popping firecrackers accompanied the celebration last week of China's New Year. The bullets were pinging a scant 150 miles outside Shanghai, but in that city and most others green paper dragons a block long were writhing through the streets borne by scores of coolies. Over 500 wounded soldiers were brought in during the week from the battle lines defending Shanghai;† but simultaneously Shanghai Chinese were calling at one another's homes to pay off debts contracted during the old year and to present huge New Year's "cards" on thin red paper...
...attract mobs that nearly burst Madison Square Garden. It was still an affair of tights?a source, perhaps, of some of the rancor in Mr. Macfadden's charges of fraud (which brought him libel suits totaling four millions) against the 1926 beauty contest at Atlantic City, held with scant emphasis on costume, by eminent bankers and businessmen...
This formidable combination has swept though all opposition thus far, amassing 34 points to its opponents six. Beside the regular teams scheduled in the amateur league, Boston College was defeated 2-0 and Boston University 5-0. A possible basis of comparison is shown in the scant 1-0 defeat suffered by the Terriers at the hands of the Crimson...
...thing under the tarpaulin was still alive. Clamdiggers found it there, on the lonely California beach, a malodorous bundle of bone and gristle, patched with scant hair, hollowed, salt-whitened, stark, ragged
...years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square to the Park, with one's eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored...