Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop is the House of mesomorphs. The long and lean, the short and squat are uncomfortable within its severe brick walls. But last year Winthrop came out first in the number of House applicants...
Unmined Riches. Actually, the gold was there all the time, but Broadwater was one of the few who had the eye to see it in Capital's balance sheet. He had made and lost a fortune in Florida real estate, spent many a lean year ("I saw the time when I couldn't pay my grocery bill") until World War II found him with an interest in the war-rich Tampa Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from...
...strong moral feelings against having affairs outside the class room. Adventures of the minds of students no longer are apt to be mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life is long on treachery, short on rewards. Everywhere, almost, one hears the reiterated gripe against life. Students wallow in private resentments. The flair for evil things some students enjoy is more than a by-product of neurosis...
...before all was done, much of the lean-was in the fire. The Democratic platform of 1908 (candidate: W. J. Bryan) declared for a constitutional amendment permitting an income tax. The Republican platform did not, but the candidate, William Howard Taft, announced that he was for it. In the heavily G.O.P. Congress of 1909, the income-tax group, led by a fiery Tennessean named Cordell Hull, introduced their measure-aimed, as Hull said, at the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The leading "plutocrat" of the Senate, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, first tried desperately to stave...
...well-balanced combination of faith and reason which St. Thomas Aquinas made the Roman Catholic ideal. He holds deep religious and social convictions but has seldom been known to raise his voice in argument. As a religious journalist, in a field overripe with invective, he has kept his arguments lean, prudent and confidently patient. As he once wrote, "I am not so much trying to persuade people to walk on a certain road, as I am to show them the road that I am convinced they are sooner or later going to walk...