Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are only two alternatives: either shave down the School to a point where its scant endowment is adequate, or jettison it altogether...
With 695 yards in 137 rushing attempts, Clasby is first in the Ivy League and a scant 43 yards behind Ron Williams (738) of Hardin-Simmons, and only eight back of Gene Filipski (703) of Villanova...
...forward pass, a season-long nemesis, threatened to trouble the Crimson again. A scant four-and-one-half minutes after the kickoff, Dartmouth's Jim Miller had pitched the Indians to a 6 to 0 lead on an eight-play, 71 yard "flight," with end Dave McLaughlin catching the final pass over the goal line...
Mount Everest is still there to be climbed, its 29,610-ft.* summit a standing challenge to all hardy mountain fighters, who cannot abide the thought of an unconquered peak. Twice in 1924, once in 1933 and again last May, pairs of climbers have struggled to within a scant 1,000 ft. of its top, but no one has made it all the way and lived to come down again (TIME, March...
...minutes later, 14,000 miles away, alerted by secret code, a beaming, triumphant Winston Churchill went charging down the corridors of Balmoral Castle, where he was a guest, to tell his vacationing Queen the great news. In London the Admiralty issued a scant, proud statement: "A British atomic weapon has been successfully exploded in the Monte Bello Islands...