Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race after getting off to an early lead, threatened only for a brief interval in the second leg. The Crimson's Archie Lyon, Cliff Wharton, Arnold Edelman, and Frank Gurley finished third, Gurley crossing the line in 8:01 after Brown had finished in 7:50.9, a scant five yards ahead of Rhode Island...
Other Crimson Varsitymen who figured in the selections were scatback Chip Cannon, whose six-point total was a scant two points short of a first team slot, and ends John Florentino and Wally Fiynn, center Jack Fisher, and backs Vince Moravec and Ralph Petrillo who received honorable mention...
Britain's lower middle classes have always envied-and wanted-a cheap auto like their American cousins had. But until a year ago they saw scant chance of ever getting one. Then William Denis Kendall, 43, manufacturer and member of Parliament, who seemed to be a happy fusion of Henry Kaiser, Van Johnson and Superman, set all Britain abuzz with plans for a People...
Rapidly bringing order out of chaos in preparation for the opening gun of the hockey season two weeks hence, Coach John Chase has slimmed his squad of 150 pucksters to a scant 28, and will shortly make tentative first-string selections from this number...
Yesterday, a scant five days before the game, the H.A.A. casually destroyed the plans of thousands who had invited their families and other guests to attend Harvard's most important athletic event of the year. By placing their applications a month to two months in advance, those thousands were acting in good faith with the H.A.A. That faith was not reciprocated. It was not reciprocated out of any malevolent intention on the part of the Athletic Association, but only out of stupidity. For if the H.A.A. lacked the intelligence to realize that every major collegiate football game since the beginning...