Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite certain the records will show that Virginia has been more hurt by the withholding of legitimate news than by its free publication. Several examples of this have recently occurred. If only good news is published the reading public will have scant respect for its value. All the news should come out, whether for good or ill. The very fact that it is going to be printed will increase efforts to prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself...
...closest race of the University crews this spring the Senior eight, stroked by P. H. Watts '31, won its second victory over the Sophomore B crew by a scant six feet yesterday afternoon on the upstream course of the Basin...
This year Bishop Burton will be 77. For more than 30 years he has toiled with his scant and scattered 5,000 parishioners. But this year he will rest. His successor, who will be consecrated bishop of the diocese on May 15, is Dr. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott of St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago...
...Harvard professors quite satisfied with their ability. But the "brain contest" does not alter the fact that each is a great University, proceeding along somwhat different lines. Each aims to produce men who will lead world thought not those who can score highest in a three-hour examination offering scant room for original effort...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...