Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressed his personal opinion that the agreement should be changed. "A start of even a week earlier would infinitely benefit the players," he remarked. "The longer, period would enable the coaches to make the training process more gradual and less arduous. Under the present arrangement, with a scant ten days before the opening game, intensive training is entered into at once, and is carried on at an exhausting pace throughout the season. An earlier training date would obviate the need for hurry, render the training less intensive, and result in better physical condition of the players, who are often worn...
...There should be an adequate period of hard training to prepare the players for the hurts that will come early in the year, and which may later be avoided. Under the present agreement a scant ten days or two weeks remain between the opening of training and the first game. This year, for example, we played Geneva, a veteran team with a month's training behind it, in our first game after a very short training period. We were beaten, clearly outclassed, and overcome by a better-conditioned eleven...
...jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), Mr. Meredith was in his element. He awakened scientists to problems agrarian...
...essential for medicinal purposes, is running inconveniently low. In November, 1921, there were 50,000,000 gallons in storage. But the yearly drinking, under doctors' prescriptions, and the disappearance of 18,000,000 or 19,000,000 gallons by technical shrinkage of evaporation and absorption have left a scant 15,000,000 gallons. This constitutes an "emergency," General Lincoln C. Andrews, Prohibition Director, said last week...
...scant ten days of actual work on the ice remain before the opening tilt on December 10, when Captain Ellison is stick men will square off against M. I. T. at the Arena. Coach Bigelow's problem will be to select as soon as possible from the wealth of experienced material on hand the strongest possible team to carry the colors of the University in the strenuous engagements that follow. With tentative dates listed with several powerful Canadian teams during Christmas week, a smooth, strong sextet must be chosen almost at once...