Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year in and year out Cornell and Syracuse will be the heaviest. I think good crews just run in cycles. We have happened to have some good material out at Washington. Navy had its run, you remember, and so did Cornell. All you have to have is two lean Freshman years and then you're in for a tough time...
...like the name Joachim. Al glanced out a window, saw the Ritz Laundry, called himself that. He became moderately successful, lured his brothers into vaudeville. They launched a collegiate act in 1925, soon landed in Earl Carroll's Vanities. But collegiatism went stale and the trio had three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally got them a job in a night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents...
...sprints in both meets Olympian Charlie Hutter should have little difficulty, and ably assisted by Captain John Colony, Don Barker and Don McKay, the Tiger sprint squad under Van Oss will get lean pickings. Dario Berrizzi will strive to lead the field in the middle and longer distances, and will have a tougher time when he comes up against the speedy Bengal captain...
Instead of having more than $6,000,000,000 with which to run the U. S. rail system, railroad managements in the lean years had about $3,000.000,000. In 1932 not one steam-locomotive was bought, in 1933 just six passenger cars. Dividends virtually disappeared. Nearly 25% of all railroad bonds went into default. Seventy thousand miles of line, nearly one-third of the total, went into the hands of the courts and 600,000 railroad workers lost their jobs. The biggest single customer of heavy industry disappeared from the market and the Government had to pass out more...
...When you lean back after your cocktail, oysters, steak, apple pie a la mode, and liqueur and you puff away on a Corona Corona you feel well satisfied with life and not a little bloated. But you have really just begun your meal according to cook books of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries which may be seen by the undernourished and overnourished of our day at Widener Library...