Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet and pointed wordlessly at Tory Backbencher Sir Hugh O'Neill, 68, Father of the House. It was the signal to nominate a Speaker for the new House of Commons, and Sir Hugh promptly rose to speak. His nominee: tall, white-thatched Tory William Shepherd Morrison, 58, a lean and likable Scots lawyer, known to M.P.s as "Shakes" because his first two initials are the same as Shakespeare's. Shakes has been M.P. for the constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury for 22 years...
...Liberal Member of Parliament from New Brunswick confessed to his fellow Canadian legislators last week that he had been a smuggler all his life-and intended to keep on being one. Said A. Wesley Stuart, a lean, little-known backbencher for six years: "There is a very unfair difference between the prices paid in the U.S. and. . . in Canada. . . I live on the bank of the St. Croix River and you can throw a stone across to-the other side. On [the U.S.] side an electric refrigerator sells for $225. If you walk across the little bridge to the other...
Quoting a CRIMSON of those dog days, "The team had played poorly; the line had been disorganized; the backs, ineffective." Harvard had not beaten Princeton in seven long, lean years. Sportswriters throughout the nation were calling the Tigers one of the best teams in the nation, and even the gamblers were reluctant to predict what the final outcome would be when the mighty Orange and Black team met "Hapless Harvard...
When the information cards were processed by the machine, they showed that lean and nonmuscular Harvard students tended to become Government officials or parsons. Moderately lean students with better muscles than average often became successful scientists. Harvard-bred artists usually developed out of students with medium fleshiness and below-par muscles. The heavy but muscular students went in for the practical callings of engineering or business and generally succeeded, while lighter-bodied competitors dropped out. A few of the Harvard men sank to manual labor, but only the poorer-muscled ones stayed at that level all their lives. The better...
According to Stagg, the study reveals that Government officials in the group tend to be lean and unmuscular, scientists moderately thin with better than average muscles. The law profession attracts portly men with a sub-par muscularity, with a smattering of big-muscled "fighting lawyer" types. Artists have a medium fleshiness and below-par muscularity, whereas theology generally attracts lean, unmuscular, lightly-built men with a minority of the muscular "fighting parson" type...