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...Excerpt: "If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and gray eyes...
...basketball maxim that a good man is better than a good small man is anywhere near true, the 1946-47 Crimson Freshman should come up with as potent a yearling five as has graced the hard-wood floors of the Indoor Athletic Building in many a lean year...
...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
...Friends, surrounded by the institutions of conventional Protestantism, the country cousins began to look increasingly like religious radicals. Under the influence of the Wesleyan "Evangelical Movement," with its emphasis on Scriptural authority, the Fall of Man and the Atonement of Christ, many (but not all) city Quakers came to lean more & more on formal theology. On visits to the cities for Yearly Meeting, country Friends began to feel uncomfortable. The center of the religious crisis was the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting...
...enough. Starved of patronage, outfoxed by voting machines, Hague could deliver only a measly 67,000 plurality in his home county. With another enemy, Republican Alfred E. Driscoll, going to the State House for three years, the aged Hague's last days would be lean indeed...