Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approximately 20 years ago Harvard faced this dilemma. Previously the University had paid scant attention to the creative arts. Harvard's first art history course was given by Charles Eliot Norton in 1874. A few sporadic courses in painting and sculpture had been offered in the Fine Arts department. But it was not until 1954 that the University felt it was important enough to appoint a committee to study the practice of the arts at Harvard...
...ensue. He wants to marry the girl on oleomargarine packages, but he can't find her in real life. While digging wells for wasteful rich people, he finds himself pursued by bored and hungry wives. For a rest, he vacations in Russia. He falls in love there in a scant three minutes in a pretty interpreter's office. But his visa is cancelled. He and his love correspond. Their letters are intercepted by a pair of State Departments. Artemis is called to Washington, is questioned about passing information, and gives up hope. He waits for his spring jobs...
Radcliffe lost to Princeton by a scant one-second margin in a race in the midst of the seat-racing shake-up three weeks ago. Since then, however, the 'Cliffe team has molded itself into as solid a woman's eight as there is in the East...
...Lion starter Ray Nawrocki, who played left field in the opener, fell apart in the sixth, allowing the first six Crimson batters to reach the base. Ten more batters and three pitchers (I use the term loosely) later, Harvard had come up with 11 runs on a scant five hits. Ten different players scored...
...first group drove a scant mile to Rue Khaled Ben al Walid. Two apartment buildings halfway along the short street housed the Palestinian leaders marked for assassination: Al-Fatah Deputy Leader Abu Yusuf, Intelligence Expert Kamal Adwan and Palestinian Spokesman Kamal Nasser. All three had attended a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization during the evening...