Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poke. The President had some happy explaining to do. In the eight months since he sent Congress a "tight, hardboiled" budget (TIME, Jan. 20), the whizzing U.S. economy had boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved...
...fact is that Church scholars have given scant attention to parvenu Freud and extremely few Catholics have ever been analyzed. People who manifestly are unaware of the true nature of either psychoanalysis or confession have often facilely claimed that Catholics have confession, therefore do not need psychoanalysis. On the other hand, it is also curious to note the term 'absolution' appearing more and more frequently in psychoanalytic literature. . . . Whatever their similarities and differences, it is high time that Catholics and Freudians got together and swapped some of their trade secrets...
...Scant effort is made by Widener Library to keep the scholar cool, but the game cannot he said for the most valuable book kept there, the Gutenberg Bible. It is currently being "rested" from the summer run in an air-conditioned safe...
...capturing the only two titles claimed by the Crimson for the 1947 season, Coulson finished a scant .004 points behind the League's batting champion, Yale's catcher, Norm Felske...
Botany was his field when he took his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in his native Nebraska. He graduated when only a scant 17 years...