Word: scantness
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...other expeditions were active in Palestine, representing seven nations, but their reports were scant. Sir Flinders Petrie, aged 74, and for decades an outstanding Egyptologist, transferred his attention to southern Palestine?"Egypt over the border," he called it? where he thought he might find the origins of the Badarian culture in Egypt...
...burden of Mr. Lowell's remarks on this occasion were apropriately to the contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...
...skill is most wonderfully scant...
...five games scheduled for the-University nine during the past week were cancelled, and in the three engagements played the pitchers held the limelight and the whip hand. The three opponents of the Crimson were shut out in games of scant hitting on both sides...
Katy Did is a harmless little play with scant humor and a musical comedy plot. A waitress at Childs picks up a vagrant foreigner and marries him the next day. She sets him up first as a dishwasher, then as a bootlegger. When the rest of the cast arrive with the news that he is the King of Suavia, everybody merrily turns bootlegger including the Suavian Ambassador...