Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year the trustees of Johns Hopkins University were invited to consider an idea that was most unusual for this day and age of higher education. A vigorous speaker with a long lean jaw and rugged physique, a vigorous, practical man, among whose favorite expressions is "Let's get down to brass tacks," was speaking at the trustees' annual meeting and saying: "The instruction in the first two college years in the United States has probably always been in essence what is now known as secondary rather than advanced instruction. On that account it has no proper place...
Last year in Norway, a lithe, bespectacled U. S. youth fell into a friendly argument with a lean, puckery-faced young Norwegian. They were talking about their bodies. The U. S. disputant was Harold M. Osborne, 1924 Olympic high jump and decathlon champion, world's record-holder in both events. His contention was that he could compel his body to perform feats surpassing in dexterity and variety those of his interlocutor, Charles Hoff, world's champion pole-vaulter...
...Lampoon, fresh to hand, bears unhappy but strict witness to the fact that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue. The lbis...
...stories of him recall the "private annals of Peter the Great." Their verisimilitude is easily credible in view of the likeness of the two chieftains in other respects; both occupied themselves in changing the facades of the social structure they ruled from Oriental to Occidental. Mustapha's literary proclivities lean toward the perusal of German military memoirs. Yet he knows that he reads nothing that transcends his own life. His stern rotogravure face must sometimes be wreathed in smiles, as he laughs at the world behind its back...
...young (33) and lean, and looks like a newspaperman, which he is as not the impressive front of a politician