Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second squad gained a point on the leaders who each dropped one match out of five on the same day. The Newton Center Club still leads the field two games ahead of the Crimson seconds, while the Harvard Club quintet is still clinging to the ground berth a scant game ahead of the fast coming University entries...
...great was the excitement on Capitol Hill that but scant attention was paid to the conventionally innocuous "Speech from the Throne" by Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy, with which Parliament was formally opened. All ears strained instead toward the House...
...ground gainer. The interference was much improved and the punting very good considering the wet condition of the ball. The forward passing, considered Princeton's forte at the beginning of the season, was very weak, however, only one out of five tosses being successful, for a gain of a scant yard, while one intercepted by Colgate was the direct cause of the Maroon touchdown. The tiger team also apparently lacks the punch necessary for gaining when within striking distance of the opponents' goal...
Through Lombardy roared a cavalcade of motors that knew no speed laws. At the wheel of his own car Benito Mussolini swooped o'er the Tessin Hills and down upon the Locarno Conference (see INTERNATIONAL) a scant 30 hours before it closed...
...Cuyler singled. "Sarah" Barnhart singled. Two runs had scored, and Washington advocates were crying: "Cheese!" and "Bummer!" at Coveleskie. The Polish pitcher (who won three World Series games in 1920 when he pitched for Cleveland against Brooklyn) trod slowly with downcast head toward a, shower bath; one Ballou, of scant fame, took his place, and Pittsburgh scored twice more. "Back, then, to Pittsburgh!" cried the fanatics...