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...themselves ("It goes on inwardly"). Most had been poor at one time or another or neglected, by parents and relatives. Some had endured cruel stepmothers and wife-beating husbands. High blood pressure (first signs: headaches, sweating) usually showed up after some crisis, when they looked around for someone to lean on and found themselves alone...
...examination of the contents of the proposed general education courses, the Committee may refer to the detailed plans drawn up in the 1940 Council report. In any event, the present Committee will probably have to lean, to a great extent, on the reports it has, by implication, thus far scorned. The authors of those reports worked, without $60,000, nearly as hard as the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society...
...just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
Anything can still happen in America. Less than ten years ago, slight, pompadoured little Igor Loiewski-Cassini landed in the U.S. with only $10, a hint of a titled past, and a lean & hungry look. By last week, at 30, as the new "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American, he had reached the peak in his peculiar field...
...Lean, grey Majority Leader John W. McCormack led Administration supporters in an eight-hour floor battle to knock out the rider. When it was over, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave their answer, approved it 162-10-101. The vote was the heaviest ever cast against a proposal by Harry Truman...