Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match of professional speed amateur deception. Lean young Norbert Setzler, one of the New York Racquet Club's five professionals, depends on sizzling forehand that shoots down the side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...
...theory was that its guests would be so sick of snow that anything white would be offensive. Most delectable feature of Sun Valley for ardent skiers will be the world's most elaborate rigs for pulling humans up hills. An ordinary rope ski-tow, with padded bars to lean on, will function on Proctor Mountain (named for Sun Valley's ski expert and chief of guides, Charles Proctor). Where the 3,050-ft. towline ends, skiers will not even have to remove their skis before relapsing into "chairlifts" which will carry them 3,500 ft. higher...
...three-year terms, biggest Stockholder Getty for a single year. At the 1936 stockholders' meeting, Mr. Getty tried to secure the repeal of the three-year term for directors and defeat two other amendments sponsored by the management which he considered inimical to stockholders' rights. According to lean, curly-haired Mr. Getty, President Humphrey and nine other Tide Water directors besides himself and Mr. Grimm controlled only 8½% of the company's stock, yet they ran it and sought to perpetuate themselves. But the other stockholders, having been solicited by both sides, stuck by the management...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...