Word: scantness
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...Jayvees' triumph over Exeter was their sixth of the season and their second over Exeter. Coach Samborski found opportunity to throw 12 men into the tray after his charges' 25 to 11 halftime lead, and saw his team hold the opposition to a scant five points in the second half...
...industries needed some 300,000 more workers. Army & Navy officials estimate that in 1945 the armed forces would need 1,500,000 men for replacements and expansion. They would draw a scant 700,000 from the fresh crop of 18-year-olds. Some of the others would have to come from the able-bodied men deferred for agriculture...
...away from depressing things. Time was when he could get away from things by running. At 14, to escape a future in the coal mines, he ran away from the four-room shack in Daiseytown, Pa. where he and ten other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much for him. He was hurt at Lae, but when he was sent to an Australian hospital...
...popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress, and a few scant hours after Boston's handsome young Mayor Maurice J. Tobin had been elected governor, Jim Curley announced that he would run for mayor in the upcoming special election. Salary of a Congressman: $10,000; of Boston's mayor...
...past four years the Germans had made scant use of the port, had done no dredging. To restore full peacetime operation might take several months...