Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relying on depth in every position, Coach Moe Berg's freshman quintet nosed out Exeter 58 to 40 yesterday in the Blockhouse. The Crimson stretched a scant one-point margin at half time, to the final lead of 18 points against Exeter's quickly tiring defense. Ed Smith, Harvard left forward and captain, plunked away with his usual accuracy for a high score of 34 points...
...afternoon last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...
Among the more promising members of the squad is Skiddy Lund, whose record at the ten-mile cross country race held earlier this year at Jackson, New Hampshire, followed close on the heels of Captain Taylor's. The scant two minutes separating Lund's time from Taylor's represented the closest in-team competition Taylor has soon during the past two years...
...crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state governments for noncooperation...
...Yorkers, who disregard nature until it makes more noise than the subway, paid scant attention to the snow that was falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...