Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announcement of Courses in Instruction devotes eleven pages to English, but considering the bracketed "omitted in 1952-53" courses and the illnesses and absences of professors, English concentrators find lean pickings there...
...cloud of dust is unforgettable. Stop a car along one of the lonely, untraveled roads of Kurdistan, and you're almost sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances...
Four new General Education courses will join the steadily expanding G.E. roster. Two are for Freshmen and Sophomores only: Associate Professor Henry D. Aiken's Humanities 5, "ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought" whose Great Books lean more toward philosophy than those of the other Humanities courses; and a course in biology with no scientific prerequisities. Natural Science...
...tennis championship was no hope at all: at 38, Gardnar Mulloy was drained by the years, and he was to face one of the finest players ever to hop a net. Yet the crowd cheered as Mulloy walked out to the famed center court at Forest Hills, lean, fit-looking and brisk, but stiff in his stride, and greying at the temples. It was his 18th year in the singles matches, and Mulloy, decorated veteran of World War 11 (lieutenant commander skipper of an LST) and four-time U.S. doubles champion (with Bill Talbert), was making his first appearance...
Four new General Education courses will join the steadily expanding G.E. roster. Two are for Freshmen and Sophomores only: Associate Professor Henry D. Aiken's Humanities 5, "ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought" whose Great Books lean more toward philosophy than those of the other Humanities courses; and a course in biology with no scientific prerequisities. Natural Science...