Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course academics have often held high positions of public trust. Ever since the benevolent protectorate of Woodrow Wilson, the fraternity has exerted great in fluence on public affairs. Scarcely a day goes by without the wires clattering out word of some stock market scare or Senatorial guffaw that is in direct response to a professorial edict. Only last week, a local critic noted with satisfaction that the Sunday literary supplements had depended "for years" on a stable of scholars who write weekly reviews...
Undoubtedly, the Tigers will treat the varsity with greater respect tonight than they did last Friday, when the Crimson threw a real scare into their feline hearts before falling by a close 61-56 score, the closest, in fact, any Ivy team had come to beating them until Dartmouth shel lacked them, 71 to 59, the following night at Hanover...
...Abraham Gilbert, onetime vice president of a local of a repairmen and electrical workers union, said that coin-machine employees make "very good wages" and need no union. Actually, said he, the operators' association needed the union to scare competitors away with picketing. For that reason the association paid dues and union expenses...
...Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...
Whether Gold's theory is correct or not, it threw something of a scare into space-minded military men who hope some day to land on the moon and do not like the idea of sinking into a mile of loose dust. Their fears were calmed by simple tests made in the laboratories of their contractors. North American Aviation, Inc., for instance, shows two sealed glass tubes. One of them contains air as well as fine dust, and a small steel ball sinks deeply below the surface. The other has a vacuum. The dust particles, no longer lubricated...