Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would take at least several days, perhaps a fortnight, for General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell to organize a counteroffensive with the troops which passed through Alexandria from East Africa to the Egyptian Front. But meanwhile the news from scant forces holding the land front was encouraging. The British garrison at Tobruch was not merely besieged, it was fighting back. The Germans seemed to have forgotten that the British still supplied the garrison from...
...start, but then successively overhauled the fourth and second shells. About a hundred yards from the finish they seemed about to repeat their upset victory of a week ago, but a last-minute spurt by Wilson's Jayvees sent them over the finish, victors by a very scant margin...
...been counting for the stroke seat, came down with the mumps at the beginning of vacation. The unbeaten record of the Varsity lightweights seems in jeopardy this year, with only Captain Seth Crocker and Pete Koeniger back from the 1940 eight. Tech, nosed out last year by a scant margin, has seven of last year's crew back and in addition has over a month's more practice behind them than the Crimson, which should make them an exceedingly tough nut for the Newell lightweights to crack...
Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
...long as Nazi submarines are sinking 350,000 tons of shipping a month, there is scant comfort in setting cargo priorities and seizing a mere 169 vessels. Once these steps are all taken, the U. S. will have to settle down to the tougher task of building ships and shipyards faster than it has ever built them before. With every yard already crowded, U. S. shipbuilders are talking about their boom. Soon they will look back to March of 1941 as a period of lull...