Word: leaner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days absence, by 12,000 miles to Argentina and back...
...Duce has steadily emerged as Italy's years have grown leaner. "Our economic life must be simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years...
...uncertain future, a more fixed and a firmer source of revenue than the present one might be suggested at least for the program of intramural sports. While Harvard has been almost unique in squeezing through this year with a whole skin, the next seasons may be considerably leaner, even allowing for the fact that the Association could naturally cut more in nine months than it has in five. But as long as the H.A.A. has to make up its budget in the spring by guessing at the probable football receipts for the next autumn, the whole program of athletics...
...prosperity, pointed to the vanishing poorhouse, promised, with God's help, to "banish poverty from this nation." His listeners went home with the feeling that only by his election could the country attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way. Last week it was a leaner, graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn...
...completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2¢ business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice...