Word: scantiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to test by any fixed bar examination even the scantiest of legal requirements for the practice of law. A brief, written examination has its value, but its limits as well. By proper use of cramming a student may pass his examination and yet have acquired little real knowledge...
...Hoover has stated the situation with his usual directness and brevity. In the desolated parts of Europe today, the parts which cannot provide even the scantiest food to keep all their population alive, there are three million and a half children, being fed by supplies from this country. If these supplies should fail for a fortnight, those three million and a half innocent little boys and girls would perish. We must see to feeding them through the winter until next year's crops become available, about the middle of July...