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Word: scarcest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops made a 1934 dinner, seven will have to suffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: New Menu | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...forests of Siberia and the wilderness from Nome to Edmonton, Canada, and then they might need time to spare. ... In a little more than two hours they were off again, with a wave of the hand, into that part of the East where miles are longest and life is scarcest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Hurry | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...part of the country well represented. With Exeter and Andover leading, the next private schools are St. Paul's, with 16, and Milton, with 15 members. In the college rank lists the 230 students in group V are most numerous, and the 10 students in group I are the scarcest. Economics, with 140 students leads the fields of concentration, while English with 83 is second, and History is third with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE STATISTICS REVEAL DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

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