Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Especially important to China are these cooperatives. Started with a scant $500,000 capital, they now include almost 3,000 small, mobile workshops back of the lines, support some 500,000 refugees, supply consumer goods (shoes, nails, bandages, coal, cigarets, books, cloth) worth around $6,000,000 a year. Their share of the United China Relief fund, about 10%, will help establish 30,000 new workshops that China needs...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that for the Goldthwait Cup, which brought to the starting line the undefeated lightweight Varsities of Yale and Princeton and the Crimson shell which had lost out to Tech by a scant two feet the week previous...
...Harvard Bridge Johnny Abbot's boat had a quarter-length on the Engineers, but as the two shells came into the finish stroke for stroke the gray-bladed sweeps hit the water last and thrust the M. I. T. boat across the line first, a winner by a scant two feet...
...boat didn't click as Haines had hoped, and he had practically decided to give the Fales-paced "seconds" the call Saturday, depending on the outcome of yesterday's time-trial. In the crucial test however, Abbot's boat found itself and nosed out the seconds by a scant half length, winning the right to race tomorrow...
...three cup races already in Harvard's hands, the Varsity lined up at 6:30 o'clock under slightly more favorable conditions than the earlier races. Pulling away to a deck-length lead on the racing start, Bolles' oarsmen dropped down to 34, and Held their scant advantage for the first quarter...