Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commission had hoped to sell 1,000 to foreign buyers. But they have shown scant interest; they are building better ships of their own, many in the U.S. The Netherlands has contracted with U.S. yards to build 30; Brazil has started 14; Great Britain, Norway and Denmark are rebuilding their fleets as fast as possible. Nor is the Commission pinning its hopes on the tubby Libertys to capture the biggest share of world shipping...
That was as far as the West Pointers were destined to get, however, for the Crimson then took the center of the stage. Bob Feloney scored at 1:00 and Bill Ayres followed him up with another at 4:15 to cut the Army lead to one scant marker. But here the rally ended, as the two teams remained deadlocked for the rest of the contest...
...thing, though Billion Dollar Baby has the broadness of burlesque, it has the brightness only fitfully. Its verbal humor is too scant and too feeble. The luridness, at times, seems used for corn rather than comedy. The heroine-a predaceous, flinthearted little heel, a kind of sister to John O'Hara's Pal Joey-is too harshly drawn for this kind of jamboree, too poorly drawn to rise above it. Before the evening is over, the constant thump and slambang of Billion Dollar Baby becomes a little fatiguing...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
...informal and curious as the liveliest of his students and only a scant dozen years older than most of them, handsome, curly-headed President Taylor (31) fits easily into Sarah Lawrence's small seminars and faculty evenings where students and tutors relax and argue in easy chairs or sprawled on floors. He is impatient of colleges that "rely more upon acquiring respectable opinions . . . than upon creating an attitude of mind which insists on examining opinion critically." Says he of his students: "They are just friends of mine. . . . We talk to each other and are quite unaware that...