Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From start to finish the McGill coach shifted his entire forward line at three minute intervals in order to make up for the scant week of practice that he has been able to give...
...when he arrived in Cambridge at the end of September. According to the agreement made by President Lowell last winter he was to stay until the end of the first term at which time his colleague at University College would replace him. After a stay of a scant three months, then, Mr. Leys leaves Cambridge tomorrow to sail for England. All those who have known him as a friend and as an instructor are loth to see him go, while any who may have the chance to see him at some future date in his native habitat look forward with...
...universities which find themselves in conflict today is prone to regard the Harvard-Yale football series as something coeval with the founding of the younger universities. As a matter of fact the series, with the background as the youth of today knows it, has been in existence some scant twenty-five years. Before then there were no great stadia and no series of home and home games...
...Goats were the objects of our expedition. These goats now wild but descended from a domestic herd left on the islands 400 years ago by Zargo, manage to obtain water for life from dew and scant fresh water pools in the rock, inaccessible to men. The goats were remarkably agile in moving about in the rocks but they did not far surpass in this art, the natives of the Madeiran village of Canico. These, accustomed to hunting the shearwater gulls among the rocks for the purpose of their feathers and wax, and the orchilla lichen for its dye mounted...
...stand by and weigh the chances. In this case an examination of recent history will give Senator. Underwood's prophecy a fair foundation. Although the 1920 election hurled a Democratic administration from its seat with the condemnatory roar of a great plurality, the tables were turned in 1922, a scant two years later, in the state and congressional elections. The fickle plebes had grown so sour upon Republican administration that a good Republican governor in New York was turned out, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts Harley squeezed through to reelection and a Senate with a violent Republican tinge was reduced...