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Word: scanted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditions and rummage through the holdings of Harvard Uni- versity and come up with a concise sampling of memorabilia would be cause for head scratching under nearly any circumstances. Yet "Introducing Harvard University" an exhibit opening this week in Tokyo's Isetan department store, will try-through a scant 1741tems-to portray one of the nation's oldest and most respected institutions to the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Thank You from Harvard | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Brown is also a crew that no one is really sure about. The Bruins, after a close win over Boston University in which the Bruins edged past the BU Terriers by a scant one second, will have a patched-up lineup because of injuries and illnesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavyweight Crew Challenges Brown for Stein Cup | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

...Scant Interest. Not surprisingly, investors round the country have shown scant interest in the new cut-rate packages, which the houses have made little effort to promote. One small shareholder, Ditria Ilario of Manhattan, notes sourly: "You can make more money by putting your cash in the bank." Brokers are equally unmoved. Says Harvey Bettis, chief of Harris, Upham & Co.'s Chicago operation: "There's a possibility that we will just leave the damn thing alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: April Fool for Small Trades | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...limited run on Broadway before going to Boston, Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles, has something of both the fascination and the mustiness of the history in it. It is a one-man show, a long reminiscence over Darrow's career. Fonda ranges across Darrow's life-his scant formal learning (one year of law school), his increasing involvement in dangerously unpopular cases, like that of the Wobbly Big Bill Haywood, and, of course, the Scopes trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Americana | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...Burma Communist Party launched its first major offensive at the end of 1971 by laying siege to the administrative outpost of Kunlong in the Wa States in the northeasternmost corner of Burma. The intensity of the Communist attack came as a surprise to Rangoon, which had hitherto paid scant attention to the existence of the small and weak party. But between 1968 and 1971, a group of Burmese Communists who had been given ideological training in China set up a strong organization among the peasants of the Shan State. The resulting attack on Kunlong ended in a standoff after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Trouble in the Triangle | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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