Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home. As a matter of fact, 147 House members, 66 Senators had already gone; eleven Republicans who had loudly insisted the Congress must stay in session to guard the nation from anything & everything have been junketing on Caribbean waters; occasional sessions of both chambers, attended by a scant 50 or so members, heard mostly lame-duck quacking. In the House, labor-baiting, gimlet-eyed Clare Hoffman of Allegan, Mich, and Lame-Duck Ralph Church of Evanston, Ill. still objected to technical adjournment. They had their...
...been examined by State officials. The other 900 refused to Nazify their faith, went into training in underground Confessional seminaries for certificates which Confessional congregations will accept in lieu of ordination. Cut off from any possibility of salaries from Nazi-levied church taxes, they must live on the scant $45 a month which the Confessional Synod can allow them...
...notes for Sumner's most comprehensive work, The Science of Society, were unfinished when he died. (He collapsed in Manhattan where, shaky and scant of breath, he had indomitably proceeded to a scientific meeting.) The Science of Society was completed by Sumner's disciple and colleague, Albert Galloway Keller, now a Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition...
...consensus of coaches at Newell Boathouse seems to be that although Harvard should win, nevertheless both opposing eights have shown enough strength and smoothness to finish first. Cornell only beat Navy and Yale by scant decklengths, but comparative times and relative distances are not reliable indicators...
...this sequel to his old-time success "The Tavern", the author tells us that he is presenting an "American Melodramatic Satire". For a scant two hours or so, the Vagabond (Mr. Cohan, if you have not divined so already) directs in entertainingly unorthodox manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience...