Not until the late 1990's did Denise examine what her mother had written and discover, instead of a diary or journal, two complete novellas written in a microscopic hand, evidently to save scarce paper.
After all, wood isn't scarce and paper companies will not want for suppliers.
With no desks and paper scarce, teachers used painted wood for a blackboard, and an open fireplace provided flashes of warmth to the lucky students who sat close.
In interviews, she claimed that there had been an artist in her family for seven generations, and that since she had found art supplies, including paper, scarce in her girlhood she "made it one of her chief duties to see that her son was plentifully supplied with such things".
Charlotte and her siblings all wrote in a tiny hand, to make the most of a scarce and expensive paper supply, but they were also short-sighted, so would have been able to see what they were writing themselves, even it was illegible to others.
To the best of our knowledge, the literature devoted to this class of problems is quite scarce, except the paper [8].
As can be seen from the Figure 2, the numbers of full economic evaluation papers are scarce.
In conclusion, although clinical trials evaluating the HRQL in patients after renal transplantation are relatively scarce, the few published papers yielded rather similar results.
Basic goods, from cooking oil to toilet paper, are scarce.
