Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely. Nothing remains to create the sex hormones. So the individual, the eunuch, grows into a being that lacks the male secondary characteristics. Queer pads of fat develop. His hips enlarge. So too his breasts. His voice becomes a squeaky falsetto; his facial hair missing or very scant. His character is cold, emotionless, qualmless; his intelligence calculating, keen, subtle. He is not a man. He is not a woman. He is an intermediate animal...
...thing about the March issue seems to be that nothing rewarded the watching for a reviewer's text. It is neither very bad nor superlatively good, but of a consistent merit which is the aim of every seasoned magazine editor. The stories can be read to the end; the scant verse rhymes, once unpleasantly; the editorial page assures us that it has been a hum-drum season, above stairs and below. The one article of distinctive quality is Mr. Pell's "Documentary Adventures in Old New York", the third in a series, and if it lacks a little...
...tonight, the 60-Yard Special Dash. Miller was first out of his holes and led Bowman of the New York A. C. to the tape in six and two-fifths seconds, one fifth of a second from the world's record. He beat the former Syracuse star by a scant foot. Hussey of Boston College placed third, five yards behind Miller...
...University trio dropped its first match in the indoor polo league when the 101st Artillery mallet men nosed out the Crimson riders by a scant half point in the Commonwealth Armory on Saturday night, 8 to 7 1-2. A foul called on Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 was responsible for the loss of the half point...
Your leading editor of today I find most pusillanimous with bastardy implied, perfidious in its ill-concealed splenetics, and hideous in its bombast. I cannot call it creditable journalism; too lame the tribute at its end, which does scant justice to a sheet of high repute, far higher than your...